Orphan Number Eight - Kim Van Alkemade - Musik - HarperCollins - 9781504614016 - 4. August 2015
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Orphan Number Eight

Kim Van Alkemade

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Publisher Marketing: A stunning debut novel inspired by true events, "Orphan Number Eight "tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage. In 1919 Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City s lower east side. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen, she runs away to Colorado hoping to find the brother she lost and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she s shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan s Old Hebrews Home, and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge, and pay for, her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveals to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person s fate to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals is not always set in stone. Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere, and based on true events, "Orphan Number Eight"is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies." Review Citations: Romantic Times 07/01/2015 pg. 28 (EAN 9780062338303, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Van Alkemade, Kim Kim van Alkemade was born in New York. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in literary journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, So to Speak, and CutBank. She teaches writing at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

Medien Musik     CD   (Compact Disc)
Discanzahl 11
Erscheinungsdatum 4. August 2015
ISBN13 9781504614016
Label HarperCollins
Genre Religious Orientation > Jewish
Maße 155 × 170 × 31 mm   ·   317 g

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