Lydia, queen of Palestine
By: Uri Orlev ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
Contributors: Halkin, Hillel, 1939-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Jews -- Romania -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Romania -- Fiction; Divorce -- Fiction; Kibbutzim -- Fiction; Romania -- Fiction; Israel -- Fiction
Description: Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.
Notes: "Originally published in Israel in 1991 by Keter Publishing House"--T.p. verso.