![]() ![]() It was on such a night that the men came for Hannah. Seeping refuse on the streets renders the pavement slick and the walking treacherous. Through the mist rising from the canal the cries and grunts of foraging pigs echo. Shapeless matter, perhaps animal, floats to the surface of Rio di San Girolamo and hovers on its greasy waters. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īt midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. Not since The Red Tent or People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. ![]() Can Hannah refuse her duty to a suffering woman? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the baby and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he offers is enough to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac, who has been captured at sea. ![]() ![]() But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers-a gift aided by the secret “birthing spoons” she designed. ![]()
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