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Rue des Rosiers

15 Apr 2019

A young Canadian woman's search for her own identity brings her to Paris in 1982, and face to face with the terror of an age-old enemy. Rhea Tregabov has used her formidable skills at imagery, metaphor and storytelling to create a powerful emotional roller-coaster of a coming-of-age novel. Twenty-five-year-old Sarah has been drifting through life for years now, her bonds with her two older sisters and her parents the only things that give her any idea who she is. Jewish, she's not even sure she wants to have that identity attached to her. Sarah's lack of self led to her pregnancy and abortion at 16, a procedure she views as being both bad and good at the same time. Anchorless, she uses the tosses of a lucky penny to make most decisions for her. However, she's also attached to the biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast, and the prophet Daniel's assurance that the king has been judged by the Almighty, and found wanting. When her oldest sister Rose has a much-desired baby born dead, Sarah wonders if this isn't God's balancing of accounts for her own selfish act. Having recently left her job at a garden centre in Toronto, an early instance of her sticking up for herself, Sarah finds her way to Paris with Michael, a young man she is struggling to stay with. There, touring some of the famed gardens of the City of Light, living in the Jewish quarter, she begins to see a direction for her life. But it's 1982, and Abu Nidal terrorists attack the restaurant she and Michael are in. Sarah knows exactly what to do for a change, try to save another person's life. Can she survive and continue on her newfound path? Or is this the Almighty's final settling up of her accounts?--$cProvided by publisher.

Authors

Rhea Tregebov

Related Organizations

Library and Archives Canada
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Date published
2019.
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
C813/.54
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781550506990 9781550508703
LCCN
PR9199.3.T644
LCCN Item number
R84 2019eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
NLC
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (247 pages)
Published in
Regina, Saskatchewan
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)kck00239640 (OCoLC)1079364611 (CaOOCEL)456554
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
NLC

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