01903cam a2200433 i 4500 2616747909 TxAuBib 20251107120000.0 251031s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781501189449 1501189441 (OCoLC)1499350518 TxAuBib rda Irving, John, 1942-, author. Queen Esther : a novel / John Irving. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. 409 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. Includes reader's guide. "Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won't find any family who'll adopt her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family with a history of providing foster care for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren't Jewish, but they despise anti-Semitism"-- Provided by publisher. 20251107. jz. Physicians Fiction. Orphanages Fiction. Jewish children Fiction. Jewish women Fiction. Antisemitism Fiction. Adopted children Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. New Hampshire Fiction. Vienna (Austria) Fiction. Israel Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Bildungsromans.