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Louisa
Louisa
Author: Simone Zelitch
This award-winning novel takes readers to postwar Israel, introducing them to a mother and daughter-in-law with an unusual relationship and offering a unique perspective on Jewish identity and experience. — "A grand, brave, open-hearted novel...honest, intelligent, and highly entertaining." (The Boston Globe) — "Reworking the biblical story...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780425181959
ISBN-10: 0425181952
Publication Date: 12/1/2001
Pages: 400
Edition: Reissue
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Publisher: Berkley Trade
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Reworking the Biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, with perhaps a nod to Neil Simon's Odd Couple, this book tells the story of a fifty year old Jewish survivor from Budapest and her widowed daughter-in-law, twenty-two-year old Louisa, the daughter of a former bureaucrat in the Third Reich.

"A grand, brave, open-hearted novel...honest, intelligent, and highly entertaining." - The Boston Globe


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