The Star on the Grave Linda Margolin Royal
- Bib ID:
- 10018385
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Royal, Linda Margolin, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library Victoria
- Description:
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- South Melbourne, Vic Affirm Press 2024
- ©2024
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 1.7MB
- ISBN:
- 9781923022966
- Summary:
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In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismissed and disappears into obscurity. Three decades later, in Australia, Rachel Margol, her father and her grandmother live disconnected from one another and haunted by unspoken tragedies. When Rachel announces her engagement to a Greek Orthodox man, it detonates a long-held secret. The Margols are actually the Margolins: they are Jewish, and her family has concealed their identity from her and the world. But why? As Rachel struggles to understand this deception, an opportunity arrives to visit Chiune Sugihara, the man who risked his life to save them during World War II. Rachel becomes determined to meet him, but will a journey to Japan, and the secrets it uncovers, heal the Margolins or fracture them for good? An extraordinary novel inspired by the true story of Chiune Sugihara, and the thousands of people - including the author - who owe him their lives.
In 1940, as the Nazis sweep towards Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his government and secretly issues visas to fleeing Jewish refugees. After the war, Sugihara is dismissed and disappears into obscurity. Three decades later, in Australia, Rachel Margol is shocked when her engagement reveals a long-held family secret: she is Jewish. As she grapples with this deception and the dysfunction it has caused, unspoken tragedies from the past begin to come to light. When an opportunity arrives to visit Chiune Sugihara, the man who risked his life to save the Margols during World War II, Rachel becomes determined to meet him. But will a journey to Japan, and the secrets it uncovers, heal the family or fracture them for good?
In 1940, as the Nazis sweep towards Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his government and secretly issues visas to fleeing Jewish refugees. After the war, Sugihara is dismissed and disappears into obscurity. Three decades later, in Australia, Rachel Margol is shocked when her engagement reveals a long-held family secret: she is Jewish. As she grapples with this deception and the dysfunction it has caused, unspoken tragedies from the past begin to come to light. When an opportunity arrives to visit Chiune Sugihara, the man who risked his life to save the Margols during World War II, Rachel becomes determined to meet him. But will a journey to Japan, and the secrets it uncovers, heal the family or fracture them for good? -- publisher.
- Notes:
- Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
- Subject:
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- Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction -- Women authors
- Diplomats -- Fiction
- Diplomats -- Japan -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- Jewish refugees -- Fiction
- Jews -- Australia -- Fiction
- Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Hot Picks Collection
- AUS historical fiction (New South Wales)
- AUS war fiction (New South Wales)
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1868
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1840
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