Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
Nov 1, 1992
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10
0374120293
ISBN-13
9780374120290
Description
David Bendiner, a young writer and secularized Jew, has qualified to emigrate from Warsaw to Palestine, but he's broke, and in order to make the journey, he must enter into a fictitious marriage with a prosperous woman eager to get there. Grappling with romantic, political and philosophical turmoil, David must also confront his faith when his father, an Orthodox rabbi, shows up in Warsaw.
Genres
Romance
Philosophy