Title:
The midwife of Venice
Author:
Publication Date as Range:
2011-2012
ISBN:
9781451657470
Edition:
First Gallery Books trade pbk. edition
Publication Information:
New York : Gallery Books, 2012, c2011.
Physical Description:
335, [9] pages : map ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: Mississauga, Ont. : Random House of Canada, 2011.
Includes a readers group guide.
Abstract:
Hannah Levi, a Jewish midwife, must decide if she will accept payment for delivering a countess' baby, as she is torn between breaking a Papal edict forbidding Jews from providing medical care to Christians and her desperate need to ransom her husband from pirates.
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