My Darling EliaMy Darling Elia
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Book, 1999
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Current format, Book, 1999, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAt a flea market Elia finds a locket he had given to his wife fifty years earlier before they lost track of each other during the Holocaust, and vendors Liz and Cia become determined to help him find his beloved Anna
At a flea market Elia finds a locket he had given to his wife fifty years earlier before they lost track of each other during the Holocaust, and vendors Liz and Cia become determined to help him find his beloved Anna.
Liz Cantrell and Cia Kushnir, who supplement their income selling a variety of objects at Montreal's huge Sunday flea market, are dismayed when a carefully dressed elderly man who visits the market is suddenly stricken. He has been idly flipping through a box of junk jewels for sale at their booth and clutches a crude locket he has picked up. When he recovers, he explains that it was a gift to his beloved wife, who disappeared from their Kiev home in 1941 during the German occupation. He has been searching ever since. It is now 1982.
After the war, upon hearing that his Anna has survived and gone to Canada, he manages to follow her there - but there the trail ends. Until the locket appears. The women determine to find Elia's Anna if they have to trace every garage sale where they might have found the locket - and there are literally hundreds.
At Montreal's huge Sunday flea market, an elderly man is stricken when he finds a crude locket in a box of jewelry at one of the booths. While recovering, he explains that it was a gift to his beloved wife, who disappeared from their Kiev home in 1941 during the German occupation. He has been searching for her ever since. It is now 1982.
After that first encounter, Elia comes back to the flea market every Sunday to tell his story. It's the tale of a young Jewish mane risking his life to find his beloved. Elia recounts hiss earch for his pregnant wife through war-torn Eastern Europe, barely escaping death at Babi Yar, encountering suspicious partisans, posing as a Nazi soldier, witnessing the destruction of the Polish ghetto, and ending up in a concentration camp. The war over, he follows his wife's trail to Montreal--where it fades away. But three women are moved by his story and join the hunt. At the story's unexpected end, readers will believe that love and hope can in some way survive horror and inspire good.
At a flea market Elia finds a locket he had given to his wife fifty years earlier before they lost track of each other during the Holocaust, and vendors Liz and Cia become determined to help him find his beloved Anna.
Liz Cantrell and Cia Kushnir, who supplement their income selling a variety of objects at Montreal's huge Sunday flea market, are dismayed when a carefully dressed elderly man who visits the market is suddenly stricken. He has been idly flipping through a box of junk jewels for sale at their booth and clutches a crude locket he has picked up. When he recovers, he explains that it was a gift to his beloved wife, who disappeared from their Kiev home in 1941 during the German occupation. He has been searching ever since. It is now 1982.
After the war, upon hearing that his Anna has survived and gone to Canada, he manages to follow her there - but there the trail ends. Until the locket appears. The women determine to find Elia's Anna if they have to trace every garage sale where they might have found the locket - and there are literally hundreds.
At Montreal's huge Sunday flea market, an elderly man is stricken when he finds a crude locket in a box of jewelry at one of the booths. While recovering, he explains that it was a gift to his beloved wife, who disappeared from their Kiev home in 1941 during the German occupation. He has been searching for her ever since. It is now 1982.
After that first encounter, Elia comes back to the flea market every Sunday to tell his story. It's the tale of a young Jewish mane risking his life to find his beloved. Elia recounts hiss earch for his pregnant wife through war-torn Eastern Europe, barely escaping death at Babi Yar, encountering suspicious partisans, posing as a Nazi soldier, witnessing the destruction of the Polish ghetto, and ending up in a concentration camp. The war over, he follows his wife's trail to Montreal--where it fades away. But three women are moved by his story and join the hunt. At the story's unexpected end, readers will believe that love and hope can in some way survive horror and inspire good.
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