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The Book of Esther · A Novel by Barton, Emily is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the Pontus Euxinus (the Black Sea) and the Khazar Sea (the Caspian). It also happens to lie between a belligerent nation to the west that the Khazars call Germania—and a city the rest of the world calls Stalingrad.After years of Jewish refugees streaming across the border from Europa, fleeing the war, Germania launches its siege of Khazaria. Only Esther, the daughter of the nation’s chief policy adviser, sees the ominous implications of Germania’s disregard for Jewish lives. Only she realizes that this isn’t just another war but an existential threat. After witnessing the enemy warplanes’ first foray into sovereign Khazar territory, Esther knows she must fight for her country. But as the elder daughter in a traditional home, her urgent question is *how*.Before daybreak one fateful morning, she embarks on a perilous journey across the open steppe. She seeks a fabled village of Kabbalists who may hold the key to her destiny: their rumored ability to change her into a man so that she may convince her entire nation to join in the fight for its very existence against an enemy like n
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Barton, Emily
- Publisher
- Tim Duggan Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101904107
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.46 / 5 (266 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14