Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family’s customs and rituals into her
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer ("One of the greatest writers of the age" —The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated b
From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer (“One of the best novelists alive” —Irving Howe): a Jewish woman marries a gentile laborer in turn-of-the-century Austria, with disastrous results.A high school honor student bound for univers
