A Jewish Girl in Paris

A Jewish Girl in Paris
Melanie Levensohn, Jamie Lee Searle
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Hardback
h242 x 163mm - 448pg
4 Aug 2022 UK
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9781529075731
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Paris, 1940, a city under German occupation. A young Jewish girl, Judith, meets a young man, Christian. But he is the son of a wealthy banker and Nazi sympathiser - his family will never approve of the girl he has fallen in love with. As the Germans impose more and more restrictions on Jewish Parisians, the young couple secretly plan to flee the country. But before they can make their escape, Judith disappears . . . Montreal, 1982: Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses to his daughter, Jacobina, that she has an older half-sister, Judith. Lica escaped the Nazis but lost all contact with his first-born daughter. . . Jacobina promises her father to find the sister she never knew. But the search languishes for years, until Jacobina is spurred on by her younger friend Beatrice. Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching over two continents and six decades which will change their lives forever . . . Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn' s A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love, perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, translated by Jamie Lee Searle.
Moving story on multiple levels of time and space. Extremely well researched. The book transported me into another world -- Freundin (major German women' s magazine) This novel is full of suspense and doesn' t let the reader go. A page turner. Must read! -- Christiane Krause-Dimmock, Badische Neueste Nachrichten Levensohn shows great sensitivity and empathy in her characters and the deep scars left by history and Nazi cruelty that reach all the way into the present * Stuttgarter Nachrichten * An intense read, depicting the time of World War II and the lifelong impact of those years, thoughtfully narrated with great depth -- Susanne Walsleben, Fur Sie (major German women' s magazine)
A German and U. S. national, Melanie Levensohn studied literature and international relations in France and Chile. She earned her master' s degree from the Institut d' Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Later she became a spokesperson for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and travelled to some of the most complex political hotspots around the world. She reported from Liberia during the civil war in 2003 and was based in Amman, Jordan, as a UN spokesperson during the Iraq war. From 2006-2013 Melanie worked as a communications expert at the World Bank in Washington, D. C. , managing corporate external relations for the Caribbean region with a special focus on reconstruction and development Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake in 2010. When she got married, Melanie joined her husband in the Napa Valley, California, where they created an award winning estate wine over ten years. In 2021, they moved back to Geneva.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529075731
Published: 4 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Height: 242mm
Width: 163mm
Spine: 42mm
Weight: 676g
Pages: 448

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