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Orphaned Esther’s journey from Vienna to Jerusalem, defying anti-Semitism.
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Queen Esther
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432 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2025
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Summary
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr Wilbur Larch takes in Esther, a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board a ship from Bremerhaven to Portland, Maine, and anti-Semites murder her mother in Portland. In the orphanage at St. Cloud’s, it’s clear…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471179129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471179125 |
| Author: | John Irving |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 596g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 153mm x 234mm |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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