The Oriental wife : a novel
Toynton, Evelyn
The Oriental wife : a novel / Evelyn Toynton. - New York : Other Press , c2011 - 289 p. ; 24 cm.
Toynton (Modern Art) returns with the story of Louisa and Rolf, childhood friends in Nuremberg who escape Hitler's Germany and eventually settle in New York. Louisa leaves as a young woman to study art history in London and travels to New York with her English boyfriend. Rolf works diligently to find sponsors and employment for Jewish refugees trying desperately to get to America. It seems that serious, almost melancholy Rolf and the modern, glamorous Louisa have little in common, but when she seeks out Rolf and their mutual friend Otto after her relationship ends and she has nowhere to go, Rolf and Louisa fall in love. They marry and settle into a happy life in their Jewish community of friends and old neighbors, and they have a daughter. Unfortunately, a disastrous event shatters their marriage, and their plans for the future are tragically altered.
9781590514412
2010054143
Jewish children----Fiction
Immigrants---New York (State)---New York----Fiction
Jews---New York---New York (State)----Fiction
Parent and child----Fiction
Conflict of generations----Fiction
Love stories
Domestic fiction
PS3570.O97 / O75 2011
FIC TOY
The Oriental wife : a novel / Evelyn Toynton. - New York : Other Press , c2011 - 289 p. ; 24 cm.
Toynton (Modern Art) returns with the story of Louisa and Rolf, childhood friends in Nuremberg who escape Hitler's Germany and eventually settle in New York. Louisa leaves as a young woman to study art history in London and travels to New York with her English boyfriend. Rolf works diligently to find sponsors and employment for Jewish refugees trying desperately to get to America. It seems that serious, almost melancholy Rolf and the modern, glamorous Louisa have little in common, but when she seeks out Rolf and their mutual friend Otto after her relationship ends and she has nowhere to go, Rolf and Louisa fall in love. They marry and settle into a happy life in their Jewish community of friends and old neighbors, and they have a daughter. Unfortunately, a disastrous event shatters their marriage, and their plans for the future are tragically altered.
9781590514412
2010054143
Jewish children----Fiction
Immigrants---New York (State)---New York----Fiction
Jews---New York---New York (State)----Fiction
Parent and child----Fiction
Conflict of generations----Fiction
Love stories
Domestic fiction
PS3570.O97 / O75 2011
FIC TOY
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