num_pages: 372
description: In 1941 during humanitys darkest hour three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman. In Berlin at the time when the world changed Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi but its his daughter Ettie who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature a rare and unusual golem who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined their paths fated to cross their fortunes linked.Lea and Ava travel from Paris where Lea meets her soulmate to a convent in western France known for its silver roses; from a school in a mountaintop village where three thousand Jews were saved. Meanwhile Ettie is in hiding waiting to become the fighter shes destined to be.What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance the fantastical and the mortal in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never ending.
language: English
title: The World That We Knew
publisher: Simon & Schuster