Crescent City: A Novel (English Edition)

She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties as a Southern wife and mother and her love for a forbidden man, a forbidden cause, Miriam Raphael is at the center of the whirlwind in a spellbinding novel of divided loyalties and divided hearts.

Unhappily married, Miriam Raphael struggles to reconcile her duties as a Southern wife with forbidden passion, ambition, and personal convictions and principles amid the turmoil of Civil War New Orleans

"Well written, fascinating, rich in plot and characters . . . presents [not only an interesting story, but] a portrait of the Jewish community in the 19th-century South."--Newark Sunday Star-Ledger.

"Seductive . . . moves along briskly through the kind of territory her avid readers most appreciate."--Publishers Weekly.

"As a romance, Crescent City can't miss!"--The New York Times Book Review.

Aventura / Crônicas / Drama / Ficção / História / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance / História Geral