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Zusatztext “This big! ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent.” — New York Post “A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man! called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience.” — Los Angeles Times Informationen zum Autor Noah Gordon ’s international bestsellers have sold millions of copies and have won a number of awards, among them, in America, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Lorraine Gordon. Klappentext He was a young American rabbi. She was his beautiful Christian wife. Together they tried to forge a life . . . "This big, ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent."-New York Post First and foremost, Michael Kind was a man-a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings, a family man devoted to his two children, a passionate man deeply in love with his wife Leslie. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie, a minister's daughter. She fell in love with Michael and converted to Judaism to marry him. This is their story, a sweeping drama of love and identity, of compassion and cruelty, a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them, in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love-let alone marry . . . "A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man, called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience."-Los Angeles Times Zusammenfassung He was a young American rabbi. She was his beautiful Christian wife. Together they tried to forge a life . . . “This big! ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent.”— New York Post First and foremost! Michael Kind was a man—a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings! a family man devoted to his two children! a passionate man deeply in love with his wife Leslie. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie! a minister's daughter. She fell in love with Michael and converted to Judaism to marry him. This is their story! a sweeping drama of love and identity! of compassion and cruelty! a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them! in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love—let alone marry . . . “A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man! called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience.”— Los Angeles Times ...
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This big, ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent. New York Post
A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man, called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience. Los Angeles Times
