Description

Lilian Nattel has created another novel occur a historical Jewish neighborhood -- the bustling alleys of London's East Result in the late-nineteenth century. In strikingly vibrant writing, and with a little her brand wonderful reality, Nattel provides the fin de siécle town alive -- whores and rabbis, street sellers and designers, sweatshops and Yiddish theater. Emilia and Nehama each get to London alone, trusting and saturated in aspirations of self-reliance. Each challenges to overcome her past and develop a new existence, Nehama within the Jewish ghetto and Emilia within the fortunate West-End.