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A mad desire to dance : a novel
Title:
A mad desire to dance : a novel
JLCTITLE245:
Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
Personal Author:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
Uniform Title:
Désir fou de danser. English
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Physical Description:
271 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780307266507
General Note:
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Abstract:
Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.7 13 Quiz 130064 English fiction.
Subject Term:
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.

Children of Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.

Mothers and sons -- Fiction.

Dybbuk -- Fiction.

Counselor and client -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Added Author:
Temerson, Catherine.
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