{"product_id":"wandering-star-9781931896566","title":"Wandering Star","description":"\"This is Nobel-quality writing, an international author with a mature style telling a story to the peak of his capacity. The English language needs more of it.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, \u003ci\u003eWandering Star\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of two young women, one uprooted by the Holocaust and the other by the founding of the state of Israel. Bearing witness to the boundless strength of the spirit, and based on his own experience as a child in World War II, J.M.G. Le Cl zio chronicles the saga of a young girl, Esther, who, in a small mountain village north of Nice occupied by Italian forces, learns what it means to be Jewish in wartime Europe. A quiet young teenager, she suffers the loss of her beloved father and, with her mother, is forced to flee advancing German troops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt war's end, Esther and her mother make an arduous journey to Jerusalem, where their path crosses with a group of displaced refugees, including Nejma, a Palestinian girl whose story of life in the camps balances Esther's own tale of suffering and survival. Esther and Nejma never meet again, but in their respective exiles, they are forever haunted by the memory of one another. \u003ci\u003eWandering Star \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful coming-of-age story and, as \u003ci\u003eLe Figaro \u003c\/i\u003enotes, truly \"a luminous lesson in humanity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Curbstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931896566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"J. M. G. Le Cl\u0026#233;zio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43624131821749,"sku":"9781931896566","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_acea9d5a-9d0c-4780-9485-76cce836a9e2.jpg?v=1707800975","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wandering-star-9781931896566","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}