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Author Hoffman, Alice, author.

Title The world that we knew / Alice Hoffman.

Publisher New York, New York: Simon & Schuster; 2019.
©2019

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 Ashland adult fiction  HOFFMAN    AVAILABLE
 Bayfield adult fiction  HOF    AVAILABLE
 Boulder Junction adult fiction  FIC HOF    AVAILABLE
 Cable adult fiction  FIC HOF    AVAILABLE
 Hayward adult and young adult fiction  HOF    AVAILABLE
 Hurley adult fiction  F Hof    AVAILABLE
 Iron River adult fiction  F HOF    AVAILABLE
 Lac Courte Oreilles adult fiction  FICTION HOFFMAN    AVAILABLE
 Land O Lakes adult fiction  FIC HOF    AVAILABLE
 Manitowish Waters adult fiction  F Hof    AVAILABLE

Descript 372 pages: ; 25 cm.
Summary In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. Lea and Ava travel from Paris, where Lea meets her soulmate, to a convent in western France known for its silver roses; from a school in a mountaintop village where three thousand Jews were saved. Meanwhile, Ettie is in hiding, waiting to become the fighter she's destined to be. What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never ending.
Subject Jewish Children -- Fiction.
Jews -- France -- Paris -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944 -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN/ISSN 1501137573 (hardcover)
9781501137570 (hardcover)