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Malkeh and Her Children: A Novel

Malkeh and Her Children: A Novel Paperback - 1992

by Marjorie Edelson

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  • Title Malkeh and Her Children: A Novel
  • Author Marjorie Edelson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition New
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Publishing Group, N.y
  • Date 1992-09-29
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780345379719_pod
  • ISBN 9780345379719 / 0345379713
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.55 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.94 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91090650
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the jacket flap

Richly plotted, animated by beautifully realized characters, and steeped in magnificent old-world detail, Malkeh and Her Children is the captivating epic of the remarkable Mandelkern family as they weather the storm of the Russian Revolution. At the family's center stands the indomitable Malkeh, an intelligent and beautiful woman, who marries Yoysef, an itinerant tailor. Together, the young couple embrace the simple joys and traditions of Jewish life in a tightly knit Russian city.
But soon their safe world is shattered with the dawn of the tsar's reign of terror. As famines and cholera epidemics sweep the nation, the Jews swiftly become scapegoats, with the Russian peasants taking their revenge in violent pogroms. Against this land torn by revolution and bloodshed, Malkeh and Yoysef's children must grow up and pursue their own destinies.
In a novel that sweeps from provincial life in a Jewish ghetto, to the streets of Lenin's St. Petersburg, rife with revolt, to Moscow in the chaos after the civil war, author Marjorie Edelson has woven a timeless tapestry of the old country with both its torments and its joys. Malkeh and Her Children is a loving evocation of powerful family values and traditions -- an imaginative work of love and hope that transports us into the life of a proud woman, whose courage and love will leave no one unmoved.

Media reviews

"Here is a book to live with, to laugh and cry over....

Once started it is impossible to put down."

Jane Aiken Hodge

Author of First Night

"Marjorie Edelson is a great storyteller.

This book is a page turner, rich in detail with a powerful narrative drive."

Ruth Sidransky

Author of In Silence

"Malkeh and Her Children etches itself on the memory with its powerful rendering of lives in a supposedly civilized society at its very nadir."

Naomi Ragen

Author of Jepthe's Daughter and Sotah