Orphan #8 / by Kim van Alkemade.
- 作者： Alkemade, Kim van author.
- 其他題名：
- Orphan number eight
- Thorndike Press large print peer picks
- 出版： Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press c2016.
- 叢書名： Thorndike Press large print peer picks
- 主題： Large type books. , Novel. , Large type books. , Novel.
- 版本：Large print edition.
- ISBN： 9781410489562 (hardcover : large print): NT$896 、 1410489566 (hardcover : large print)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-563).
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- 系統號： 000805625 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's Lower Eastside. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen, she runs away to Colorado hoping to find the brother she lost and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she's shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan's Old Hebrews Home and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge, and pay for, her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveal to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person's fate -- to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals -- is not always set in stone. (Based on actual events.)