Wallant, Edward Lewis
Summary: For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called "survivors" could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker, is one such sufferer. At 45, Nazerman, who survived Bergen-Belsen although his wife and children did not, runs a Harlem pawnshop. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fig Tree Books LLC 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALHiggins, F. E.
Summary: After running away from his evil parents in the City, Ludlow Fitch meets Joe Zabbidou, a pawnbroker of secrets who enlists Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of the remote village of Pagus Parvus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGHiggins, F. E.
Summary: When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments are many and trust is scarce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2007