The Silver Music Box

The Silver Music Box - The Silver Music Box

Paperback (01 Dec 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A captivating cross-generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together.

1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved country-a country that would soon turn against his own family.

A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. Though the silver is tarnished and dented, this much-loved treasure is also a link to an astonishing past. With the keepsake is a letter from Lilian's mother, telling her daughter for the first time that she was adopted. Too young to remember, Lilian was rescued from a Germany in the grips of the Holocaust. Now only she can trace what happened to a family who scattered to the reaches of the world, a family forced to choose between their heritage and their dreams for the future.

Book information

ISBN: 9781542048484
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Imprint: AmazonCrossing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 251
Weight: 274g
Height: 141mm
Width: 209mm
Spine width: 24mm