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This instant New York Times bestseller and longlist recipient for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal takes place in 1941, during humanity’s darkest hour, and follows three unforgettable young women who must act with courage and love to survive.

“[A] hymn to the energy of resistance, determination, and enduring like in dark times…gravely beautiful…Hoffman the storyteller is constantly on the dazzle..Read More about The Globe That We Knew: A Book ” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Oh, just what a book that is! Hoffman’s exploration of the globe of great and evil, and the constant contest between them, is certainly unflinching; as well as the mankind she brings to us—it really is a glorious encounter.” —ELIZABETH STROUT, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge

“Alice Hoffman’s brand-new book will break your center, and stitch it back again collectively piece by piece. It’s my brand-new favorite Hoffman publication.” —JODI PICOULT, NY Times bestselling writer of Little Great Things and A Spark of Light

In Berlin, at that time when the world transformed, Hanni Kohn understands she must send out her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her through the Nazi regime. She finds her method to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his child, Ettie, who presents wish of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a uncommon and unusual golem, who’s sworn to safeguard Lea. Once Ava is usually brought to existence, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked.

Lea and Ava travel from Paris, where Lea meets her soulmate, to a convent in american France known because of its sterling silver roses; from a college in a mountaintop community where three thousand Jews were saved. In the meantime, Ettie is within hiding, waiting to become the fighter she’s destined to become.

Exactly what does it mean to reduce your mother? Just how much is one able to person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every convert, we meet amazing characters that consider us on a stunning journey of loss and level of resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a location where all streets lead at night Angel of Death and love is certainly never ending.