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A carregar... Orphan #8 (2015)por Kim van Alkemade
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The very scary part of our history. It is one thing to volunteer another to be unknowingly forced. ( ) A compelling read on aspects of early to mid-1900s Jewish history I have never heard much about. Some LGBTQ thrown in as well. And Redheads! I love the part in the back about the author and what inspired the story with photos. Wish all books would do that. SPOILER ALERT: I was very disappointed that she didn't get closure with her brother or learn the truth about her parents by the end of the story. Those were major plot lines that didn't get a resolution. This is a well-written book, a lot of it based on the author's family history. Pictures in the back of the book documenting how various locations might have looked at the time of the story. Rachel and her brother,Sam are put in an orphanage. Rachel goes to an infant home where she is experimented on with X-rays and permanently loses all hair on her body. Once she is moved to the orphanage where Sam is, Rachel is bullied because she is bald. As Rachel gets older, she works in the infirmary where nursing becomes her goal. Sam runs away before graduation, after an incident at the home,and Rachel soon follows. Rachel eventually returns to New York and works as a nurse. The woman doctor who subjected Rachel to all the X-rays becomes Rachel's patient in the hospital where she is working. Rachel is torn. Should she be compassionate or should she seek revenge? Orphaned Rachel doesn't find out the true reason for her permanent hair loss (that occurred during her childhood spent at the orphanage) until much later in life. Once she realizes who is responsible for this loss, and that it was deliberate, she has the opportunity to take revenge. Considering that the loss is now much greater than just her hair, and Rachel may very well now lose her life, does she take this opportunity to exact an eye for eye? Heartbreaking, powerful and a fast moving page turner. This book does not disappoint! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before. In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's Lower Eastside. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen, she runs away to Colorado hoping to find the brother she lost and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she's shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan's Old Hebrews Home and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge, and pay for, her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveal to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person's fate--to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals--is not always set in stone. Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere and based on true events, Orphan #8 is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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