The Debt of Tamar: A Novel
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Nicole Dweck. (2015). The Debt of Tamar: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Nicole Dweck. 2015. The Debt of Tamar: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Nicole Dweck, The Debt of Tamar: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.

Nicole Dweck. The Debt of Tamar: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: NICOLE DWECK holds a BA in Journalism and a Master's Degree in Global Affairs from NYU. When The Debt of Tamar, her debut novel, was self-published, it was a USA Today bestseller and received honorable mention in Writer's Digest's Self-Published Book Awards. She lives in New York City with her husband and their son.
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A USA TODAY Best seller!
Bestselling author Nicole Dweck brings to life one of history's greatest yet overlooked stories of love and resilience.
In 2002, thirty-two-year-old Selim Osman, the last descendant of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, flees Istanbul for New York. In a twist of fate he meets Hannah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and an artist striving to understand a father she barely knows. Unaware that the connection they share goes back centuries, the two feel an immediate pull to one another. But as their story intertwines with that of their ancestors, the heroic but ultimately tragic decision that bound two families centuries ago ripples into the future, threatening to tear Hannah and Selim apart.
From a 16th-century harem to a seaside village in the Holy Land, from Nazi-occupied Paris to modern-day Manhattan, Nicole Dweck's The Debt of Tamar weaves a spellbinding tapestry of love, history, and fate that will enchant readers from the very first page.

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   • source: Amanda Hodgkinson, New York Times bestselling author of 22 Britannia Road
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     "I was enchanted by The Debt of Tamar. This lyrical tale of lovers lost and found across the centuries had me hooked to the last page. Nicole Dweck is a natural storyteller."

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   • source: Gina B. Nahai, bestselling author of Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
   • content: "A promising literary debut that entertains as well as informs. History, this book reminds us, is often more stunning and implausible than fiction itself."
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   • source: Susan Meissner, author of A Fall of Marigolds
   • content: "A remarkable debut novel. Nicole Dweck skillfully weaves tales of love, sacrifice, and faith, all threaded into a compelling tapestry. The Debt of Tamar is an evocative and memorable look into the resiliency of the human spirit."
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   • source: Sonia Taitz, author of The Watchmaker's Daughter and Down Under
   • content: "The Debt of Tamar is an extraordinary book, at once a picaresque saga and a moral tale of reclamation. From its early chapters in 16th-century Iberia, it travels to Istanbul, Israel, and then New York, linking old worlds and new in ways that are astounding, yet believable. Nicole Dweck has a keen eye for human foibles and deep human strengths. But more than anything else, a sense of honor pervades this novel. This, and a deft authorial hand, whirl us through the centuries and into the present – and a wise, transcendent, and satisfying conclusion."
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     July 1, 2015
     Disrupted love affairs, guilt, and secrets of faith and identity are looped across centuries and around the globe in Dweck's impassioned, originally self-published debut. Making up in confidence what it lacks in polish, Dweck's saga is constructed on a theory of cosmic balance. The novel's first part explains how "a debt lingers in the heavens" after devoted couple Murad, heir to the 16th-century Ottoman Empire, and Tamar, the child of Jewish refugees from the European Inquisition, are separated. Such debts, according to the author's theory, must be repaid, which leads to the novel's second half, set in 2002, the story of Selim Osman, last descendent of the Ottoman sultans, and Jewish Hannah Herzikova, whose relationship restores the connection and repays the debt established half a millennium earlier. Part I is the faster-moving of these two sections, tracing Tamar's parents' discovery of their Jewish heritage and flight from Portugal in 1544, haunted by scenes of auto-da-fe. Taking refuge in Istanbul, the family serves at the court of the sultan, whose enlightened attitude has saved them; but a royal engagement and the possible loss of Jewish identity is more than Tamar's father can countenance. Part II opens in Istanbul some five centuries later with the gloomy tale of attractive, successful Selim, who's haunted by his brother's death. Although worse is to follow, in the form of grave illness, that's the universe's bittersweet way of pointing Selim toward his savior, Hannah, whom he will meet in a New York hospital. Awkwardly phrased and simply characterized, Dweck's romance doesn't linger over the finer details but does ensure that the universe is back on its axis as the story ends. Full-throated if lightweight storytelling.

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     During Portugal's Inquisition, Jose Mendez learns that he is Jewish (his parents perished for their beliefs) and flees to welcoming Istanbul. He embraces his faith, but then his daughter falls for the sultan's grandson, with consequences that play out 400 years later in New York. Dweck's self-published USA Today best seller gets new life with a big house.

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 15, 2016
     

     A rare self-publishing success, Dweck's debut won the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Award in 2013. The novel's first half chronicles a Jewish family's flight from Iberia during the 16th-century Inquisition to Istanbul. The second part is set in 2002, when a young man descended from the Ottoman sultans meets the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Of course, the reader knows that these separate story lines will intersect, but the result is a compelling and enjoyable read.

     Read-Alikes Jessica Jiji's Sweet Dates in Basra, Gina B. Nahai's The Luminous Heart of Jonah S., Jacqueline Park's The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi, Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, and Janice Weizeman's The Wayward Moon.

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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In 2002, thirty-two-year-old Selim Osman, the last descendant of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, flees Istanbul for New York. In a twist of fate he meets Hannah, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and an artist striving to understand a father she barely knows. Unaware that the connection they share goes back centuries, the two feel an immediate pull to one another. But as their story intertwines with that of their ancestors, the heroic but ultimately tragic decision that bound two families centuries ago ripples into the future, threatening to tear Hannah and Selim apart.
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