One night, in a Tel Aviv bar, Dana Barry’s world turns upside down. She is arrested for theft from her workplace. Dana begins a battle to prove her innocence and even finds great love along the way. But then another blow strikes: an elderly man accuses her of being the granddaughter of a thief. He claims that Dana’s grandfather, the Rabbi of Asergom, collected money from his entire community to arrange their escape from Nazi-occupied Hungary – only to leave alone, abandoning his flock. Hurt and shaken, Dana embarks on a journey into her family’s past, aided by the diaries of Aggi Farkas, a former psychologist and partisan whom she met in a nursing home. Gradually, a breathtaking historical tale of heroism from World War II unfolds before her, intertwined with a larger-than-life yet heartbreaking love story. At the end of Aggi’s story, Dana discovers the true circumstances of her grandfather’s escape from Europe. But the question of what happened to Aggi’s lover, who disappeared thirty-five years earlier, continues to stir her imagination. Dana enthusiastically dedicates herself to solving this mystery, and ultimately succeeds in resolving her own dilemmas about true love. “Wolves in the Snow” is a fascinating, moving, and surprising story depicting two great, turbulent, and desperate loves trying to survive in the shadow of wars. Orly Krauss-Weiner’s well-known sweeping style transforms the reading into an exhilarating experience that cannot be interrupted until the story’s end. “Wolves in the Snow” is Orly Krauss-Weiner’s eighth book.
