{"product_id":"the-convert-hardcover","title":"The Convert - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStefan Hertmans\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid McKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International-long-listed author of \u003ci\u003eWar and Turpentine \u003c\/i\u003ereconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In eleventh-century France, Vigdis Adela s, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi's son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father's knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness destroyed by the vicious wave of anti-Semitism sweeping through Europe with the onset of the First Crusade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What begins as a story of forbidden love evolves into a globe-trotting trek spanning continents, as Vigdis undertakes an epic journey to Cairo and back, enduring the unimaginable in hopes of finding her lost children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on two fragments from the Cairo Genizah--a repository of more than three hundred thousand manuscripts and documents stored in the upper chamber of a synagogue in Old Cairo--Stefan Hertmans has pieced together a remarkable work of imagination, re-creating the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers whose steps he retraces almost a millennium later. Blending fact and fiction, and with immense imagination and stylistic ingenuity, Hertmans painstakingly depicts Vigdis's terrible trials, bringing the Middle Ages to life and illuminating a chaotic world of love and hate.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTEFAN HERTMANS\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally acclaimed Flemish author. For more than twenty years he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, where he wrote novels, poems, essays, and plays. His previous book, \u003ci\u003eWar and Turpentine, \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the prestigious AKO Literature Prize in 2014. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated from the Dutch by David McKay.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.4 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701465157695,"sku":"9781524747084","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/790ffbf59dd6a7961d85becf59b7a162.webp?v=1765020742","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-convert-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}