Title: Jerusalem Maiden: A Novel.
Author: Talia Carner.
A fascinating look at a little-known culture and time . . . set in the last days of the Ottoman Empire, in Jerusalem, a young Orthodox Jewish woman, Esther, struggles between her role as a wife and mother in an ultra-religious household and her life as an artist . . . which is a "world" forbidden to her. The author uses extraordinary sensory details to convey the reader to another time and place.
Fiction; rated 4 out of 5.
Reviewed by E. Feynman
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