Ebook {Epub PDF} The Little Bride by Anna Solomon

Anna Solomon's novel, "The Little Bride," is the story of a Jewish girl, a teenager, and mail order bride for a man of the Dakota Territory of America in the 19th century. Minna's journey begins in Odessa where she agrees to come to America in order to escape the slave-like labor and anti-semitism all too common in European Russia/5(90). From the award-winning author of The Book of V., an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontierWhen year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox 3/5(14). The Litte Bride by Anna Solomon takes place in the late s. The story begins in Odessa with the first glimpse of Minna. Minna is sixteen years old. She commits to a marriage that is arranged by an agency that fits wealthy, established Russian Jews with young brides. Although Minna is excited about her new life, she also has a lot of trepidation.3/5().

Read "The Little Bride A Novel" by Anna Solomon available from Rakuten Kobo. From the award-winning author of The Book of V., an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of. The Little Bride by Anna Solomon. Unfortunately, Solomon abandons the fertile promise of the novel's Tolstoy-worthy premise, and limits the story's scope to one eccentric family in self-imposed exile from an Am Olam community in South Dakota, and tells the tale from the narrow point of view of a disgruntled mail-order bride.

“Evocative of Alice Munro, Amy Bloom, and Willa Cather, but fueled by Anna Solomon’s singular imagination, The Little Bride is a masterful debut. This tale of a Jewish mail-order bride’s homestead experience on the Great Plains is embroidered with sage, beautiful writing on every page and marks the start of a long, fine, and important career.” —Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us. The Little Bride. WHEN YEAR OLD Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South Dakota with his two teenage sons. Anna Solomon’s fascinating debut, about a mail-order bride sent to join her Orthodox husband in rural South Dakota, is a rare, stunning exception. Minna Losk is a year-old orphan living in s Odessa when she answers an ad from a Russian-American man looking for a wife.