{"product_id":"queen-esther-john-irving","title":"Queen Esther (John Irving)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cider House Rules\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr Wilbur Larch takes in Esther, a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEsther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board a ship from Bremerhaven to Portland, Maine, and anti-Semites murder her mother in Portland. In the orphanage at St. Cloud's, it's clear to Dr Larch, the physician and director of the orphanage, that the abandoned child not only knows she's Jewish, but she's familiar with the biblical Queen Esther she was named for. Dr Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; he doubts he'll find any family to adopt her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Esther is fourteen, soon to become a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic family with a history of providing for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren't Jewish, but they detest anti-Semitism and similar prejudice. Esther's gratitude to the Winslows is unending. As she retraces her steps to her birth city, Esther keeps loving and protecting the Winslows - even in Vienna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final chapter of this historical novel is set in Jerusalem in 1981, when Esther is seventy-six.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eSetting Free the Bears,\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1968 when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. In 1992 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning in 1980 for \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for \u003ci\u003eThe Cider House Rules.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for \u003ci\u003eIn One Person.\u003c\/i\u003e Internationally renowned, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for Owen Meany\u003c\/i\u003e is his bestselling novel, in every language\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto. \u003ci\u003eThe Last Chairlift\u003c\/i\u003e is his fifteenth novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Paperback - Trade paperback (UK), Englisch, 432 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63380009222493,"sku":"K098202767","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/215268-9820276700001A.jpg?v=1770780647","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/queen-esther-john-irving","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}