Lydia, Queen of Palestine
By: Uri Orlev ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
Contributors: Halkin, Hillel, 1939-
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
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.