| Two for the Devil Contributor(s): Hoffman, Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789203979 ISBN-13: 9780789203977 Publisher: Abbeville Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: This searing new novel in the critically acclaimed "Small Worlds" series records the cruel fate of the villagers of Krimsk, in Russia, as they encounter the 20th-century's greatest agents of evil: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98016026 |
| Series: Small Worlds |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.52" W x 8.2" (0.88 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Russia - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Holiday - Rosh Hoshanah - Holiday - Yom Kippur |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Moscow at the height of the 1936 Stalinist purges, Grisha Shwartzman discovers on Rosh Hashanah--the Jewish New Year and Day of Judgment--that he is in danger of liquidation by the secret police he serves. In 1942, Yechiel Katzman finds himself on a train of imprisoned Jews as it leaves the Warsaw ghetto on Yom Kippur--the Day of Atonement--for resettlement in the East. Stalin and Hitler decree certain death, but in the course of their experiences Grisha and Yechiel discover Jewish fates. Through memory, both men gain community, dignity, and the awareness of sanctity, Grisha's Soviet Rosh Hashanah and Yechiel's Nazi Yom Kippur are truly Days of Awe. |