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Spanning seventy years and several continents, this epic, enthralling novel tells the braided love story of three unforgettable characters.
In 1946, Walter Westhaus, a German Jew who spent the war years at Tagore's ashram in India, arrives at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, where he meets Sol Kerem, a promising rabbinical student. A brilliant nonbeliever, Walter is the perfect foil for Sol's spiritual questions—and their extraordinary connection is too wonderful not to share with Sol's free-spirited fiancée Rosalie. Soon Walter and Rosalie are exchanging notes, sketches, and secrets, and begin a transcendent love affair. Months later they shatter their impossible bond, retreating to opposite sides of the country—Walter to pursue an academic career in Berkeley and Rosalie and Sol to lead a congregation in suburban New York. A chance meeting years later reconnects Walter, Sol, and Rosalie—catching three hearts and minds in a complex web of desire, heartbreak, and redemption
"I've never read anything quite like this lyrical and infinitely wise novel. . . . If books could shimmer, this one would." —Elizabeth Berg, author of The Dream Lover
"[A] meditation on faith and religion, on love and faithfulness, on feminism, on the times in which the characters lived, and on the meaning of life . . . a truly satisfying novel." —San Francisco Book Review
"An ambitious study of faith, doubt, and desire both erotic and spiritual." —Kirkus Reviews
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- Release date: November 21, 2023
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- ISBN: 9780062383372
- File size: 602 KB
- Release date: November 21, 2023
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- ISBN: 9780062383372
- File size: 778 KB
- Release date: November 21, 2023
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