There Where the Pepper Grows
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On Sale:
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28/06/2006
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Formats:
Paperback
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The new novel from the author of the acclaimed The Seduction of Silence
We are sailing down the Hoogly River, inland towards Calcutta. I am a younger man, and I travel with a group of Polish Jewish refugees. Our lives are cheap and our pockets are empty ... I have two women in my life, and they are both on the same boat: one, a Catholic, whom I have loved since I was a little boy, and another, who is Jewish, whom I have married.
I do not know what the future will hold for any of us. I do not know when we will be able to stop wandering ...
This is the story of Benjamin, who fled his native Poland during the Nazi occupation, aiming to fulfil his father′s long-held dream of settling in Palestine. But along the way he and his fellow-survivors are stranded in Calcutta, and somehow it becomes inevitable that he will stay ...
There, Where the Pepper Grows is the moving story of a family set against the drama of real historical events. It brings East and West together in an unforgettable novel of a search for refuge, and a passionate plea for tolerance.
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