The world that we knew

Resource Information

The work The world that we knew represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

The world that we knew

Statement of responsibility

Alice Hoffman

Creator

• Hoffman, Alice

Contributor

• Light, Judith

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
• Jewish children -- Fiction
• Jews -- France | Paris -- Fiction
• Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944 -- Fiction
• Historical fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

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

Format of music

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Judith Light

Target audience

adult