Portada

ONE PERSON?S LOSS IBD

VINE LEAVES PRESS
09 / 2022
9786188600218
Inglés

Sinopsis

ItâÇÖs 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Nazi Germany for Brooklyn, admonishedáby their parents to have children to 'save our people.' Following a miscarriage, Petra becomes obsessed with adopting a Jewish infant abandoned at a Coney Island exhibit of incubator babies. Erich isnâÇÖt so sure. A struggle begins about when-and even if-they should start a family.Meanwhile, the couple agonizes over the fate of the families they left behind in HitlerâÇÖs Europe. Can PetraâÇÖs parents bribe officials and secure safe passage to the U.S.? What of ErichâÇÖs parents and four siblings, especially his hotheaded brother who joined the resistance?One PersonâÇÖs Loss explores whether marriage, even grounded in love, can survive personal clashes and the traumas of the Holocaust.

PVP
19,54