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Łukasz Nicpan

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    Rabbi
    La neige tombait sur les cèdres / Jardins d'Éden / Le vieux
    • Rabbi

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Michael Kind was a young American Jewish, but he was also a man. A man who couldn't help that his heart led him to Leslie, a beautiful Christian. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie, the minister's daughter. First and foremost, Michael was a man -- a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings, a passionate man deeply in love with Leslie. Leslie is also fell in love with Michael, but she must convert to Judaism to marry him. Defying parents and teachers, they dare to love one another and tried to forge a life, in this sweeping drama of love and identity, compassion and crueltly, a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them, in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love -- let alone marry....

      Rabbi2003
      3,7
    • Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

      La neige tombait sur les cèdres / Jardins d'Éden / Le vieux1997
      3,9
    • I 1906 vender en velhavende jøde fra Argentina tilbage til Warszawa, hvor han opsøger forbryderkvarteret og roder sig ind i en masse forviklinger

      Scum1992
      3,7