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Luke (korrick) | 2004 comments The Samaritan Treasure, Marianne Luban, 1990, United States, SHORT STORIES

"...The title story is a history of an area where there "seems to be a curse, but to whom it extends and what must be done to lift it, not even the wisest in Israel know." The final piece, which moves between Rome in the 1950s and England in the 1970s, is a story of a love lost for twenty years, of two lovers keeping from each other the fact that they are Jewish..."

(H.S., p. 363)


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