The Oriental Wife: A Novel

Authors: Toynton, Evelyn
Publisher: Other Press
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC046000
ISBN: 9781590514429, Related ISBNs: 1590514416, 1590514424, 9781590514412, 9781590514429
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 239,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing can ever touch them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish accident and a betrayal that will reverberate into the life of their American daughter. In its portrait of the immigrant experience, and of the tragic gulf between generations, The Oriental Wife illuminates the collision of American ideals of freedom and happiness with certain sterner old world virtues.
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