The Polish Woman: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1882593995 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He was a Holocaust survivor who had hidden a daughter with a Catholic farm family in Poland to try to save her from the Nazis. This is a story that will entrance readers who relish suspense, drama, little explored aspects of the Holocaust, and the many threads of human character, from greed and fear to personal romantic attachment and motivation.. Is the woman who she claims to be, or a scam artist intent on inheriting the dead man's fortune, or something else? The search for the woman's true identity takes a young male member of the family across the ocean with her in a detective-story-like search to movingly peel back her past, like onion layers. The Polish Woman, set in New York and in Poland, is a gripping post-Holocaust story with a fresh, highly suspenseful mystery twist. An attractive 29-year-old Polish woman suddenly appears before a New York Jewish family in 1967, claiming to be the
Greenpoint to Lublin The Polish-American experience is a complex one and there is a vast disparity in that experience between if one is a Jew or a Catholic. I am neither of the above, and I am not Polish."Americans are not interested in Poland," she concluded as though this were a foreign conclusion. "Why should they be. A poignant and emotional tale of terrible repercussions that last a lifetime. Written by Eva Mekler, The Polish Woman is a haunting novel about tragedy and love. Set in 1967 New York, The Polish Woman follows the story of Jewish lawyer Philip Landau, charged with handling the estate of a holocaust survivor, when a woman appears on his doorstep and identifies herself as the su. Max Callie said An Elegant Post-Holocaust Page-Turner. This elegantly written page-turner has a lot to offer. It has mystery: Is Karolina the long lost Jewish child who was hidden by her father, Jake Landau, with a Polish family during the Holocaust or is she a conniving Pole trying to gain the recently deceased Jake's inheritance?. It has international
All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly In this unembellished he-said-she-said, Karolina Staszek, a Polish-Catholic sculptor working as a nanny in 1967 Manhattan, tells her Jewish employer, Noah Landau, that she may be his cousin—a cousin thought to have died decades before in a Nazi death camp. Although Karolina's claim is based on the flimsiest of childhood memories, Noah believes the mysterious foreigner he's also infatuated with and sends her to persuade his cynical lawyer cousin, Ph