Doll's Eye Are the Secrets She Keeps Really Thousands of Miles Away?
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TextPublisher: Australia : Vintage (Australia), 2023Description: 320 pages: 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761043741Summary: Vivid, haunting, unforgettable. LUCY TRELOAR Has magnificent qualities of humane invention. It is my nomination for a book to read at the end of times. TOM KENEALLY Sometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye. Germany, 1933. Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of grave danger. She flees overnight, taking her precious doll collection with her, and sets sail for Australia. She lands a job at the Birdum Hotel and carves a new life, hiding her past from the world - until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything. Australia, 1938. A Yiddish poet fleeing persecution, Alter has seen the writing on the wall for his people. Armed with a letter of introduction from Albert Einstein, he manages his own escape from Europe and arrives in Australia in search of a safe place to call home. When fate leads him to Anna, he's convinced he's found his future with her.
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Due to be published August 2023.
Vivid, haunting, unforgettable. LUCY TRELOAR Has magnificent qualities of humane invention. It is my nomination for a book to read at the end of times. TOM KENEALLY Sometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye. Germany, 1933. Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of grave danger. She flees overnight, taking her precious doll collection with her, and sets sail for Australia. She lands a job at the Birdum Hotel and carves a new life, hiding her past from the world - until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything. Australia, 1938. A Yiddish poet fleeing persecution, Alter has seen the writing on the wall for his people. Armed with a letter of introduction from Albert Einstein, he manages his own escape from Europe and arrives in Australia in search of a safe place to call home. When fate leads him to Anna, he's convinced he's found his future with her.
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