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HISTORICAL ROMANCE
The Book of Splendor
July 2003
paperback
ISBN 0-393-32458-3
6" x 8"
BOOK #HR-32458
352 pages
Fiction
A Novel
$25.95
A historical novel about the most unlikely of lovers, interwoven with the
mysticism of the Jewish occult.
Frances Sherwood brings to life the experience of the Jewish community during a
period of oppression and rebirth. Set in seventeenth-century Prague, The Book of
Splendor is an adventure-filled romance stocked with court intrigue and
political tension, including the machinations of the rival Ottoman Empire, the
religious controversies of Protestantism, and the constant threat of violence to
the Jewish community. At the heart of the novel is Rochel, a bastard seamstress
who escapes poverty through an arranged marriage to the tailor Zev, but falls in
love with Yossel, the Golem created by Rabbi Loew to protect the Jewish
community. Meanwhile, Emperor Rudolph II puts the safety of all Prague at risk
in his mad bid for an elixir of immortality. The Book of Splendor is an epic
tale reminiscent of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and a love story as unlikely
as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring.
"There is no end to the superlatives to apply to this mesmerizing novel....A
truly remarkable achievement."—Scott Turow
This is a book with splendor to spare.
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