The garden of Ruth
By: Eva Etzioni-Halevy.
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780452286733
Subjects: Ruth -- (Biblical figure) -- Fiction; Women in the Bible -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: As the novel opens, Osnath, the 15-year-old niece of the prophet Samuel, arrives in Bethlehem with her grandmother to visit relatives. There, in a scroll room, she finds a scrap of parchment hinting at an illicit love affair involving Ruth the Moabite. (The wife of wealthy Boaz, Ruth is perhaps best known as the great-grandmother of David, future king of Israel and notorious slayer of Goliath.) Ruth's descendants, especially her great-grandson Eliab, are determined to keep their ancestor's secrets safe.