The gravedigger's daughter
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780007258451; 9780007254965
Subjects: Refugees; Fiction; German Jews; Roman
Description: This book tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the only job the father can get is as the town gravedigger and caretaker of the cemetery.