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100 1  Barton, Emily. 
245 14 The book of esther|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]
       |bA Novel.|cEmily Barton. 
260    |c2016. 
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520    What if an empire of Jewish warriors that really existed 
       in the Middle Ages had never fallen--and was the only 
       thing standing between Hitler and his conquest of Russia? 
       Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an 
       isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the 
       Pontus Euxinus (the Black Sea) and the Khazar Sea (the 
       Caspian). It also happens to lie between a belligerent 
       nation to the west that the Khazars call Germania--and a 
       city the rest of the world calls Stalingrad.After years of
       Jewish refugees streaming across the border from Europa, 
       fleeing the war, Germania launches its siege of Khazaria. 
       Only Esther, the daughter of the nation's chief policy 
       adviser, sees the ominous implications of Germania's 
       disregard for Jewish lives. Only she realizes that this 
       isn't just another war but an existential threat. After 
       witnessing the enemy warplanes' first foray into sovereign
       Khazar territory, Esther knows she must fight for her 
       country. But as the elder daughter in a traditional home, 
       her urgent question is how.Before daybreak one fateful 
       morning, she embarks on a perilous journey across the open
       steppe. She seeks a fabled village of Kabbalists who may 
       hold the key to her destiny: their rumored ability to 
       change her into a man so that she may convince her entire 
       nation to join in the fight for its very existence against
       an enemy like none Khazaria has ever faced before.The Book
       of Esther is a profound saga of war, technology, mysticism,
       power, and faith. This novel--simultaneously a steampunk 
       Joan of Arc and a genre-bending tale of a counterfactual 
       Jewish state by a writer who invents worlds "out of 
       Calvino or Borges" (The New Yorker)--is a stunning 
       achievement. Reminiscent of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish 
       Policemen's Union and Philip Roth's The Plot Against 
       America, The Book of Esther reaffirms Barton's place as 
       one of her generation's most gifted storytellers. 
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