The puzzle king : a novel / by Betsy Carter.
By: Carter, Betsy.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: 344 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 978616200169 (pbk.).Subject(s): Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction | Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | Families -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: On a gray morning in 1936, Flora Phelps stands in line at the American consulate in Stuttgart, Germany. She carries a gift for the consul, whom she will bribe in order to help her family get out of Hitler’s Germany. This is the story of unlikely heroes, the lively, beautiful Flora and her husband, the brooding, studious Simon, two Jewish immigrants who were each sent to America by their families to find better lives... Now wealthy, but still outsiders, Flora and Simon become obsessed with rescuing the loved ones they left behind in Europe whose fates are determined by growing anti-Semitism on both sides of the Atlantic."--p. [2] of jacket.
Includes: a note from the author -- a conversation with the author -- Question for discussion.
On a gray morning in 1936, Flora Phelps stands in line at the American consulate in Stuttgart, Germany. She carries a gift for the consul, whom she will bribe in order to help her family get out of Hitler’s Germany. This is the story of unlikely heroes, the lively, beautiful Flora and her husband, the brooding, studious Simon, two Jewish immigrants who were each sent to America by their families to find better lives... Now wealthy, but still outsiders, Flora and Simon become obsessed with rescuing the loved ones they left behind in Europe whose fates are determined by growing anti-Semitism on both sides of the Atlantic."--p. [2] of jacket.
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