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John Irving Queen Esther Hardback Book

John Irving Queen Esther Hardback Book

by John Irving

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GTIN09781471179129
EAN9781471179129
MPN9781471179129
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After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Awardwinning The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Clouds, Maine, where Dr Wilbur Larch takes in Esther, a Vienneseborn Jew whose life is shaped by antiSemitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board a ship from Bremerhaven to Portland, Maine, and antiSemites murder her mother in Portland. In the orphanage at St. Clouds, its clear to Dr Larch, the physician and director of the orphanage, that the abandoned child not only knows shes Jewish, but shes familiar with the biblical Queen Esther she was named for. Dr Larch knows it wont be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther he doubts hell find any family to adopt her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to become a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic family with a history of providing for unadopted orphans. The Winslows arent Jewish, but they detest antiSemitism and similar prejudice. Esthers gratitude to the Winslows is unending. As she retraces her steps to her birth city, Esther keeps loving and protecting the Winslows even in Vienna. The final chapter of this historical novel is set in Jerusalem in 1981, when Esther is seventysix. | John Irving Queen Esther Hardback Book

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