The World That We Knew

Name: The World That We Knew
ISBN: 9781501137983

by Alice Hoffman

Dayton Literary · 2020 · Winner

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Atria BooksSeptember 24, 2019Historical Fiction Literary FictionISBN 9781501137983

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction	2020	Winner	“The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction in 2020.”

About This Book

Berlin, 1941. Hanni Kohn creates a golem to protect her twelve-year-old daughter Lea on the dangerous journey through occupied France to safety. The golem, named Ava, is bound by laws that constrain the living—but Ava comes to feel love herself. A novel of the Holocaust told through the lens of Jewish mysticism, following three women across the landscapes of wartime Europe.

About the Author

Alice HoffmanAmerican

Alice Hoffman is an American author who has published more than thirty novels and story collections over a career spanning nearly fifty years. Born in New York City in 1952, she studied at Adelphi University and received an MFA from Stanford University. Her fiction seamlessly blends realism with magical and fairy-tale elements, creating a distinctive form of literary magical realism set primarily in New England. Read more →