A Day of Small Beginnings: A Novel - Hardcover

Rosenbaum, Lisa Pearl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316014516 ISBN 13: 9780316014519

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2006

Synopsis

Poland, 1906: on a cold spring night, in the small Jewish cemetery of Zokof, Friedl Alterman is wakened from death. On the ground above her crouches Itzik Leiber, a reclusive, unbelieving fourteen-year-old whose fatal mistake has spurred the town's angry residents to violence. The childless Friedl rises to guide him to safety -- only to find she cannot go back to her grave. Now Friedl is trapped in that thin world between life and death, her brash decision binding her forever to Itzik and his family: she is fated to be forever restless, and he, forever haunted by the ghosts of his past.

Years later, after Itzik himself has gone to his grave, his son, Nathan, knows nothing of his bitter father's childhood. When he begrudgingly goes to Poland on business, Nathan decides on a whim to visit his ancestral town. There, in Zokof, he meets the mysterious Rafael, the town's last remaining Jew, who promises to pass on all the things Itzik had failed to teach his son - about Zokof, about his faith, and about himself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316014516
• ISBN 13: 9780316014519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384