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Book

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A mad desire to dance : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION WIES (OSH)

Edition

1st American ed.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Physical Description

271 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

Notes

"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Subjects

Added Authors

Catherine Temerson

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