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Louisa
By Simone ZelitchPublisher: Berkley Books, 2000
This award-winning novel takes readers to postwar Israel, introducing them to a mother and daughter-in-law with an unusual relationship and offering a unique perspective on Jewish identity and experience.
"Reworking the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, with perhaps a nod to Neil Simon's 'Odd Couple,' the book explores the complex relationship between the narrator, an abrasive, 50-year-old Jewish survivor from Budapest named Nora Gratz...and her widowed daughter-in-law, 22-year-old Louisa. The punch line: Louisa is a German Christian...she has accompanied Nora to Israel, haven of Holocaust survivors, where an Aryan immigrant can hardly expect a welcome...A wonderfully bittersweet work that broods on loss even as it affirms human resilience, connection, and a faith in providence." (The New York Times Book Review)
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