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The orphan's tale

The orphan's tale

Pam Jenoff

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Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.

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OL Work ID
OL20049020W

Subjects

HistoryJewsWorld War, 1939-1945CircusTeenage mothersFictionJews, fictionFiction, historicalWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionnyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2017-03-12New York Times bestsellerFiction, historical, general

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