Louisa

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Nora, a sturdy Holocaust survivor, arrives in Palestine in 1949 and lands in an "absorbtion camp" where everyone is in training to become a good Israeli. By the author of The Confession of Jack Straw. 20,000 first printing.

Genres: Historical FictionFictionHungaryJewishIsrael

384 Pages

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