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When the famous Dutch painting "Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam" arrives at a museum in Halifax, a disturbed young woman abandons her life in favor of the one she imagines for the painting's subject--even as being a Jew in Amsterdam becomes more perilous as the clouds of World War II gather in Europe.
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The Museum Guard, Howard Norman
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- Released
- 1998
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The Museum Guard
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Howard Norman
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 328
- ISBN10
- 0374216495
- ISBN13
- 9780374216498
- Series
- Canadian Trilogy
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Holocaust, Canada, Museums
- Rating
- 3.4 out of 5
- Description
- When the famous Dutch painting "Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam" arrives at a museum in Halifax, a disturbed young woman abandons her life in favor of the one she imagines for the painting's subject--even as being a Jew in Amsterdam becomes more perilous as the clouds of World War II gather in Europe.