From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphansto the 1969 daring escape of the Israeli boats of Cherbourg.1942 As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the chteau where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified.When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice and escapes to Spain, leaving her baby in the care of his nursemaid. By the time Claudette is able to return years later, her son has disappeared. Unbeknown to his anguished mother, the boy has been rescued by a Youth Aliyah agent searching for Jewish orphans.1968 When Israeli naval officer Daniel Yarden recruits Sharon Bloomenthal for a secret naval operation in Cherbourg, France, he cant imagine that he is the target of the agenda of the twentyyearold grieving the recent loss of her fianc in a drowned submarine. Sharon suspects that Dannys past in Youth Aliyah may reflect that of her mysterious late mother and she sets out to track her bosss extraordinary journey as an orphan in a quaint French village all the way to Israel.As Danny focuses on the future...

Binding: Paperback;432 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 436 g; Dimensions: 133 x 203 x 27

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