Sand DevilThe heat of the Negev Desert is captured in this collection of three novellas. An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in House of Bondage. In The Maestro of Yerucham, a Russianviolinist who has survived the Nazis and the Soviet regimes finds a young girl he believes to be the heir to his talents. And in Sand Devil, the adolescent son of a fundamentalist family discovers the terrifying secrets of the desert. |
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