From AwardAnnals
| Book: | The Lady with the Hat |
|---|
| Author: | Uri Orlev |
|---|
| Honors: |
|
|---|
| Genres: | |
|---|
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Juvenile Books |
|---|
Yulek, a seventeen-year-old Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war's end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a sad and beautiful Jewish girl named Theresa. Saved from the Nazis by Catholic nuns, Theresa, like Yulek, is uncertain about her place in the postwar world. Together they struggle to rediscover the joy of living. Meanwhile, a mysterious English woman sets out on her own search for the long-lost nephew that she has spotted in a newspaper photo of Jewish refugees. Perhaps by finding him, she will also find some long-hidden part of herself.
Translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
