The Walnut Tree

by Martha Blum

Sussel is a well to do young woman in Chernowitz, known as little Vienna. She studies languages and pharmacy in several universities in Europe and is looking forward to a full and privileged life. But... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550501542
• ISBN13: 9781550501544
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Coteau Books
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This Octagenarian can write

Martha Blum wrote this at age 86 and it's her first novel. THere's more to this accomplishment.This book won the Saskatchewan Book Award for First Novel and was nominated for Libris Awards, and a 2000 shortlist for the Canadian Booksellers Association.Of the books I read in 2000, this rates as definitely one of my favourites. It's rich, detailed, deeply insightful, beautifully written. She transports readers to Prague and back -- theatre for the mind. It's a rich story of deep and enduring love, search for oneself, and the horrors of the Halocaust. Her detail is unsparing.The only negative, is that I feel this novel seems to be near-autobiography. She may not write another one as powerful as this. I must read this book again -- you should read it at least once.