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Jack Wiseman, a New York Jewish lieutenant, is assigned to guard a train of looted valuables – gold watches, fur coats, family heirlooms – captured by American soldiers on the outskirts of Salzburg in 1945. His duty is complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce Hungarian woman who lost everything during the Holocaust. Seventy years later, Jack’s granddaughter, Natalie Stein, inherits a precious necklace and is tasked with finding the woman whose portrait haunts her grandfather’s memories. Natalie's quest into the tangled world of art dealers and Jewish property thefts may help her confront inherited guilt and seek redemption for her own life’s tangled path.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: War & Military Fiction/World War II Fiction
Authors: Ayelet Waldman
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