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The Slave

The Slave

Cecil Hemley
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Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release
October 01, 1988
ISBN
0374506809
ISBN 13
9780374506803

The Slave

Cecil Hemley
4.2/5 ( ratings)
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Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release
October 01, 1988
ISBN
0374506809
ISBN 13
9780374506803

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