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LocationOakland
Call NoF BER
TitleThe Girl who Counted Numbers / Roslyn Bernstein
AuthorBernstein, Roslyn
Barcode528266
CollectionFiction
SummarySusan Reich is a 17-year-old American who goes to Israel seeking to solve a family mystery. Susan’s quest takes her to unexpected places where she confronts layers of history that she never knew. While trying to find her missing uncle, with the Adolf Eichmann trial in the background, she explores awakening emotions in herself and gets involved in the political struggles of the moment. The seven months that Roslyn Bernstein spent in Jerusalem in 1961, when she listened to the stories of immigrants and survivors and daydreamed about their meanings, was a source of inspiration for The Girl Who Counted Numbers. She has been attentive to historical accuracies of time and place but the story of Susan Reich, her family, and friends is fictional.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9789493276369 19.86
Personal Name Bernstein, Roslyn
Title Statement The Girl who Counted Numbers / Roslyn Bernstein
Imprint The Netherlands Amsterdam Publishers 2022
Physical Description 261 p. softcover 23 cm.
Series Statement New Jewish Fiction.
Summary, Etc. Susan Reich is a 17-year-old American who goes to Israel seeking to solve a family mystery. Susan’s quest takes her to unexpected places where she confronts layers of history that she never knew. While trying to find her missing uncle, with the Adolf Eichmann trial in the background, she explores awakening emotions in herself and gets involved in the political struggles of the moment. The seven months that Roslyn Bernstein spent in Jerusalem in 1961, when she listened to the stories of immigrants and survivors and daydreamed about their meanings, was a source of inspiration for The Girl Who Counted Numbers. She has been attentive to historical accuracies of time and place but the story of Susan Reich, her family, and friends is fictional.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Jewish Historical fiction. Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Jewish Literature. Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Literary. Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Holocaust. Fiction.
Added Entry, Personal Name Grschebina, Liseloutte Painter (cover art)