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William Morrow
February 2010
On Sale: February 8, 2010
387 pages
ISBN: 0061725382
EAN: 9780061725388
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Fiction Family Life
In 1592, Prague is a relatively safe refuge for Jews who
live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But the peace is
threatened when a young Christian girl is found with her
throat slashed in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover.
Charged with blood libel, the shopkeeper and his family are
arrested, and all that stands in the way of a rabid
Christian mob is a clever Talmudic scholar, newly arrived
from Poland, named Benyamin Ben-Akiva. Granted just three
days to bring the true killer to justice—hampered by
rabbinic law, with no allies or connections, and only his
wits, knowledge, and faith to guide him—Benyamin sets off on
a desperate search for answers. Following a twisting trail
from the streets to the shul, from the forbidden back rooms
of a ghetto brothel to the emperor Rudolf II's lavish
palace, he will dare the impossible—and commit the
unthinkable—to save the Jews of Prague . . . and himself.
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