A Jewish Girl in Paris
The heart-breaking and uplifting novel, inspired by an incredible true story
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 448
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781529075731
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Levensohn, Melanie
Paris, 1940: The City of Lights under German occupation. Christian, son of a bank director, falls in love with Jewish girl Judith. The young couple secretly plan to flee, but suddenly Judith disappears. Christian begins a frantic search.
Montreal, 1982: Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses to his daughter, Jacobina, that she has an older half-sister, Judith. Lica escaped the Nazis but lost all contact with his first-born daughter. Jacobina must promise her father to find the sister she never knew . But the search languishes for twenty-five years, until Jacobina is spurred on by her much-younger friend B¿rice, a French diplomat experiencing a painful midlife crisis.
At the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., they meet Gr¿ire. Not only does he make B¿rice¿s head turn, he also finds clues to Judith¿s w hereabouts. Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching over two continents and six decades. It w ill change their lives forever.