num_pages: 384
description: Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. “Superb...A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned truths” (San Francisco Chronicle).
language: English
title: Refiner's Fire
titlecomplete: Refiner's Fire
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, War, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, American Fiction
ratings_count: 1145
publisher: Mariner Books