Queen Esther
$32.75
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2025
Summary
Queen Esther: A Novel of Survival and Identity
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award–winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther—a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471179136 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471179133 |
| Author: | John Irving |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
John Irving
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968 when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. In 1992 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for In One Person. Internationally renowned, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. A Prayer for Owen Meany is his bestselling novel, in every language.
A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto. The Last Chairlift is his fifteenth novel.
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