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Ester's Child
Author: Jean P. Sasson, Jean Sasson

Book Information
Publisher: Windsor-Brooke Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Rating:
4

ISBN-13: 9780967673738 - ISBN-10: 0967673739
Publication Date: 9/1/2001
Pages: 445


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback

Book Description:
In this spellbinding novel, the international bestselling author of Princess brings together a striking cast of characters, revealing deep layers and varieties of love and hate seldom seen in popular fiction.

Jewish Holocaust survivors Joseph & Ester Gale have lost most of their family members to the infamous gas chambers of Auschwitz and Treblinka, yet they continue to defy death for the dream of a Jewish State.

Palestinian refugees George and Mary Antoun are forced to flee their home in Haifa to raise their only child in the squalor of Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon.

Former S.S. officer Friedrich Kleist and his wife Eva survive Germany’s bitter loss in World War II only to have the long shadow of their Nazi past return to haunt them and their beautiful daughter, Christine.

By tethering the lives of these three families, all tossed into the maelstrom of war’s terrors, JEAN SASSON proclaims the tenderness of great love and exposes the consuming passions of war. But in the end, the force of love overturns the claims of war and blood.

JEAN SASSON’s talent for delving into the deepest corners of the human condition has produced a stunning novel, and reviewers agree!


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Deborah M. (BookishOne) wrote on 12/3/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

A dramatic masterpiece. Set during the backdrop of war-torn Europe and the drama of the postwar Middle East. Tells the tale of 2 families - One Arab the other Israeli. Lets us know how really intertwined all our lives are. The stunning conclusion will blow you away!!!!


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Tita W. wrote on 10/20/2009...


As a fan of the Princess series of books by Jean Sasson, I eagerly awaited another of her books. I was sorely disappointed. The book certainly has it's compelling elements, but it suffers from a poor storytelling style--how many times can your mind be forced to jump back and forth between various time periods? How many auxiliary characters can you keep track of? And most of all, what does most of it have to do with what ends up being the central mystery of the book? Sasson should either have expanded this into a several volume set, giving each of the intertwining plot lines the time it deserved, or taken about 3/4 of the backstories of each plot completely out. Better yet, she could simply have deleted half the book and ended up with a much more readable text.


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