About the book
Zachariah and Rachel are as star-crossed as two lovers can be. Rachel is the cherished daughter of a Russian family living in London--the artistic, mysterious Wolffs; Zach is her parents' adopted son who arrived from the orphanage with one sweater and a head full of curls and immediately stole Rachel's heart. As children, they became inseparable. But when they crossed a forbidden line, there was no going back. Now, as an adult, coping with her father's censure, Rachel decides to invent an ancestral history for her beloved: from a tavern-educated boxer in Dickensian times, to a Hussar at the Battle of Borodino during the Napoleonic Wars. Even as their real-life problems threaten to invade their imagined world, the threads of Rachel's story spin faster and faster. Filled with art and science, fairy tales and folk songs, tsars and foundlings, Be My Wolff is a wondrous, funny and tragic tale of astonishing beauty.
Editions of Be My Wolff
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780345810724
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780345810731
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781101970171
- AltFormat
- ISBN 9781101946527
- EBook
- ISBN 9781101946534
- EBook
- ISBN 9780345810748
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Zachariah and Rachel are as star-crossed as two lovers can be. Rachel is the cherished daughter of a Russian family living in London--the artistic, mysterious Wolffs; Zach is her parents' adopted son who arrived from the orphanage with one sweater and a head full of curls and immediately stole Rachel's heart. As children, they became inseparable. But when they crossed a forbidden line, there was no going back. Now, as an adult, coping with her father's censure, Rachel decides to invent an ancestral history for her beloved: from a tavern-educated boxer in Dickensian times, to a Hussar at the Battle of Borodino during the Napoleonic Wars. Even as their real-life problems threaten to invade their imagined world, the threads of Rachel's story spin faster and faster. Filled with art and science, fairy tales and folk songs, tsars and foundlings, Be My Wolff is a wondrous, funny and tragic tale of astonishing beauty.
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What is Be My Wolff about?
Zachariah and Rachel are as star-crossed as two lovers can be. Rachel is the cherished daughter of a Russian family living in London--the artistic, mysterious Wolffs; Zach is her parents' adopted son who arrived from the orphanage with one sweater and a head full of curls and immediately stole Rachel's heart. As children, they became inseparable. But when they crossed a forbidden line, there was no going back. Now, as an adult, coping with her father's censure, Rachel decides to invent an ancestral history for her beloved: from a tavern-educated boxer in Dickensian times, to a Hussar at the Battle of Borodino during the Napoleonic Wars. Even as their real-life problems threaten to invade their imagined world, the threads of Rachel's story spin faster and faster. Filled with art and science, fairy tales and folk songs, tsars and foundlings, Be My Wolff is a wondrous, funny and tragic tale of astonishing beauty.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Be My Wolff?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Where can I read a sample of Be My Wolff?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780345810724
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Be My Wolff?
Emma Richler
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Be My Wolff is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780345810724) and paperback(ISBN 9780345810731) and paperback(ISBN 9781101970171) and altformat(ISBN 9781101946527) and ebook(ISBN 9781101946534) and ebook(ISBN 9780345810748)
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