Dina's Lost Tribe: A Novel
Author
Brigitte Goldstein
Publisher
iUniverse.com
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When Professor Henner Marcus receives an urgent plea from his cousin Nina Aschauer, he leaves Chicago behind and travels to Toulouse, France, where Nina had disappeared without a trace five years before while in search of the place where she was born in the Pyrenean Mountains during her parents' flight from the Nazi persecution. All she knows is the name of the place, Valladine, but it is not found on any map. Her inquiries lead her to an encounter with Alphonse de Sola, a rough-hewn shepherd who offers to take her there. What she finds is love, a mountaintop outpost arrested in time, and a codex written in Hebrew letters that thrusts her into the passionate world of Dina Miryam, a medieval Jewish woman. As Henner, Nina, and her best friend, Etoile Assous, decipher the writing, they are taken on a breathtaking journey into the world of this fourteenth-century Jewish woman, whose family had fled France following the expulsion of the Jews from that kingdom in 1306, but who herself had fallen victim to the sexual intrigues of a fiendish priest. The three find themselves embroiled in a world of mystery, adventure, and danger as the narrative reaches its climax and surprising solution.
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