LE SACRIFICE

by Adele Wiseman

ROMAN À CARACTÈRE JUIF PRIX DU GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉRAL LITTÉRATURE CANADIENNE

537 pages, Paperback

Published November 28, 2019

About the author

Adele Wiseman was a Canadian author. Her parents were Russian-Jews who emigrated from the Ukraine to Canada, in part, to escape the pogroms that accompanied the Russian Civil War.

In 1956, Wiseman published her first novel, The Sacrifice, which won the Governor General's Award. Her only other novel, Crackpot, was published in 1974. Wiseman also published plays, children's stories, essays, and other non-fiction.