The Book of Splendor
by Frances Sherwood
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/as new
- ISBN 10
- 0393021386
- ISBN 13
- 9780393021387
- Seller
-
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book is in as new condition, no wear to covers or dust jacket, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "A historical novel about the most unlikely of lovers, interwoven with the mysticism of the Jewish occult. Frances Sherwood brings to life the experience of the Jewish community during a period of oppression and rebirth. Set in seventeenth-century Prague, The Book of Splendor is an adventure-filled romance stocked with court intrigue and political tension, including the machinations of the rival Ottoman Empire, the religious controversies of Protestantism, and the constant threat of violence to the Jewish community. At the heart of the novel is Rochel, a bastard seamstress who escapes poverty through an arranged marriage to the tailor Zev, but falls in love with Yossel, the Golem created by Rabbi Loew to protect the Jewish community. Meanwhile, Emperor Rudolph II puts the safety of all Prague at risk in his mad bid for an elixir of immortality. The Book of Splendor is an epic tale reminiscent of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent , and a love story as unlikely as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring . Reading group guide included." Good Reads "Frances Sherwood is an American writer, novelist, and educator. Sherwood has published four novels and one book of short stories. Her 1992 novel, Vindication, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It has been translated into twelve languages." Good Reads
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1022-2024
- Title
- The Book of Splendor
- Author
- Frances Sherwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393021386
- ISBN 13
- 9780393021387
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 348
- Size
- 24 cm x 16.5 cm
- Keywords
- Fiction, Historical, Jewish
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