The Oriental Wife

A Novel

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  • The
  • Oriental
  • Wife
  • is
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • two
  • assimilated
  • Jewish
  • children
  • from
  • Nuremberg
  • who
  • flee
  • Hitler’s
  • Germany
  • and
  • struggle
  • to
  • put
  • down
  • roots
  • elsewhere.
  • When
  • they
  • meet
  • up
  • again
  • in
  • New
  • York,
  • they
  • fall
  • in
  • love
  • both
  • with
  • each
  • other
  • and
  • with
  • America,
  • believing
  • they
  • have
  • found
  • a
  • permanent
  • refuge.
  • But
  • just
  • when
  • it
  • looks
  • as
  • though
  • nothing
  • can
  • ever
  • touch
  • them
  • again,
  • their
  • lives
  • are
  • shattered
  • by
  • a
  • freakish
  • accident
  • and
  • a
  • betrayal
  • that
  • will
  • reverberate
  • into
  • the
  • life
  • of
  • their
  • American
  • daughter.
  • In
  • its
  • portrait
  • of
  • the
  • immigrant
  • experience,
  • and
  • of
  • the
  • tragic
  • gulf
  • between
  • generations,
  • The
  • Oriental
  • Wife
  • illuminates
  • the
  • collision
  • of
  • American
  • ideals
  • of
  • freedom
  • and
  • happiness
  • with
  • certain
  • sterner
  • old
  • world virtues.
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