Bøger af Ann Brener

Out of ancient Jewish sources comes a novel of love and self-discovery in the heart of the ancient Parthian empire. The year is 259 A.D. and the three daughters of Rabbi Samuel, the greatest Jewish scholar of his day, are taken captive during the fall of Nehardea, a thriving merchant-city on the Euphrates River. Two of the daughters quickly return from captivity and are restored to their family; the third daughter, Rachel, vanishes - only to reappear as the wife of a convert to Judaism and the mother of a noted rabbi. On the basis of these briefest of references from the Babylonian Talmud, first-time novelist and Hebraic scholar Ann Brener creates the portrait of a young woman caught between the demands of two cultures, and a moving love story that crosses the boundaries of lands and religions.

"Books Like Sapphires features highlights of Hebrew literary works in the Library of Congress. It is a book about books, but it is also a book about patrons, first among them Jacob Schiff, whose munificence founded the Hebraic Section in 1912 to ensure the survival of the Jewish cultural heritage"--

PARIS, 1718.Two lovers torn apart.NEW ORLEANS, 1980s.A young woman's quest for a lost masterpiece...One of four hauntingly beautiful paintings created by one of the greatest painters of 18th-century France, The Autumn of Watteau originally hung in the opulent Parisian mansion of aristocrat and businessman Pierre Crozat.As the centuries passed, only one survived. The Autumn of Watteau is the story of an old French memoir, two doomed lovers and one young woman's journey to find a lost work-of-art through a romance of her own.Moving from Regency Paris to New Orleans, this stunning debut is a touching and timeless story of love and loss.