| International Standard Book Number |
9781501189449
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| Personal Name |
Irving, John, 1942- author.
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| Title Statement |
Queen Esther : a novel / John Irving.
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| Publisher |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
409 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Publisher Annotation: Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won't find any family who'll adopt her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family with a history of providing foster care for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren't Jewish, but they despise anti-Semitism. Esther's gratitude for the Winslows is unending; even as she retraces her roots back to Vienna, she never stops loving and protecting the Winslows. In the final chapter, set in Jerusalem in 1981, Esther Nacht is seventy-six.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jewish children Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Orphans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identity (Psychology) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Physicians Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. gsafd.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft.
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