num_pages: 384
description: Set in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a refugee from Prague.
language: English
title: Snow in August
titlecomplete: Snow in August
genres: Jewish, Coming Of Age, New York, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Fantasy, Adult, Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 6786
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: Grand Central Publishing