The River Midnight

Described as "a "Fiddler on the Roof" without the music" ("Denver Post"), "The River Midnight" recounts the stories of four women in a small village near Warsaw in 1894--"a loving anatomy of the vanished world of the "shtetls" ("Kirkus Reviews").

List of contents

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE Angels and Demons

PART ONE The Women

1 Mushroom Soup

2 Mud and Pearls

3 Miracle Cloaks

4 A Plague of Frogs

PART TWO The Men

5 Golden Eggs

6 The Watercarrier

7 The Dancing Bear

8 A Gift of Fire

PART THREE Misha

9 The Secret River

Author's Note

Glossary

About the author

Lilian Nattel won the Martin and Beatrice Fisher Jewish Book Award
for her internationally acclaimed first novel, The River Midnight. She lives in Toronto with her family.

Product details

• Authors: Lilian Nattel, Nattel Lilian
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.1999
• EAN: 9780684853048
• ISBN: 978-0-684-85304-8
• No. of pages: 418
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: black & white illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, midnight; historical; river; literature