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Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem Rick Held Hachette, $29.99
Tholdi is a musical prodigy whose brilliant future is extinguished when the horror unfolding across Europe arrives at his door. One day he’s captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Lyuba whom he meets on his 16th birthday. The next day he wakes to the terrors of war as the Nazi-allied Romanians attack his town of Czernowitz. A ghetto is built to imprison the town’s Jews before herding them onto trains bound for concentration camps. Tholdi and his parents await their turn. And, then, fate intervenes, giving them all a reprieve. At the weaving mill, Tholdi secures work that spares him. He is elated – until he discovers the two brothers who run the mill are Nazi collaborators hiding a terrible secret. When Tholdi sees one of the brothers with Lyuba, he glimpses a way to save himself and his family. Will Lyuba be the key to their survival, or will Tholdi’s infatuation with her become a dangerous obsession that guarantees their death?
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