The winter guest
(2021, original release: 2014)
By:
Jenoff, Pam
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/JENOFF,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, 2021
DESCRIPTION
346 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780778312109, 0778312100 :, 0778312100, 9780778312109
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes reader's guide
"Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation ... Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village ... Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper ... [as] Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy her choices have sparked in Ruth, culminating in a singular act of betrayal that endangers them all"--