Bookseller`s Sonnets, The - Softcover

This brilliant book, a bona fide page turner, is about how to be a woman, a daughter and a Jew, no less than it explores how to be a principled human being. The Bookseller's Sonnets is an extraordinary achievement. (Joan Mellen, Author of A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and The Case That Should Have Changed History) With her potent combination of poetry and prose, testimony and truth, Rosenthal crafts a story about religious identity and relationships that enables readers on embark on own their journey of self-discovery. I dare you to be able to put this book down! (Sally Srok Friedes, author of The New Jew: An Unexpected Conversion) Andi Rosenthal's 'Booksellers Sonnets' is gripping historical mystery with a twist. We would happily recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book or Peter Manseau's Songs for the Butcher's Daughter-to anyone, in fact, who enjoys a good story told well. (Joseph's Bookstore, London) The Bookseller's Sonnets grabbed me from the first few pages. Tying together the Tudor era, the Holocaust and today in one story takes a gifted writer. Simply said - one of my favorite books this year. (The Printed Page)

A mysterious package from an anonymous artifact donor arrives on the desk of Jill Levin, the senior curator at a Holocaust museum: a secret diary, written by the eldest daughter of St. Thomas More, legal advisor to and close friend of Henry VIII. As Jill and her colleagues work to authenticate this rare find, letters arrive to convey the manuscript's history and the donor's unimaginable story of survival. At the same time, representatives from the Archdiocese of New York arrive to stake their claim to this controversial document, hoping to send it to a Vatican archive before its explosive content becomes public. As the process of authentication hovers between find and fraud, and as the battle for provenance plays out between religious institutions, Jill struggles with her own family history, and her involvement in a relationship she fears will disrupt and disappoint her family.