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A mad desire to dance : a novel / Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.

Wiesel, Elie, 1928- (Author). Temerson, Catherine. (Added Author).

Summary:

Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307266507 :
  • Physical Description: 271 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st American ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in France as Un desir fou de danser by Editions de Seuil, Paris, in 2006"--T.p. verso.
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Subject: Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Dybbuk > Fiction.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Counselor and client > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Holocaust survivors > Fiction.
Children of Holocaust survivors > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at South Interlake Regional Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Stonewall Library FIC WIESEL (Text) 1000074019 Fiction Volume hold Available -


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