{"product_id":"the-invisible-wall-harry-bernstein-9780345496102","title":"The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis wonderfully charming memoir, written when the author was 93, vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its 'Invisible Wall.' \" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It was identical to countless other streets in countless other working-class neighborhoods of the early 1900s, except for the \"invisible wall\" that ran down its center, dividing Jewish families on one side from Christian families on the other. Only a few feet of cobblestones separated Jews from Gentiles, but socially, it they were miles apart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the eve of World War I, Harry's family struggles to make ends meet. His father earns little money at the Jewish tailoring shop and brings home even less, preferring to spend his wages drinking and gambling. Harry's mother, devoted to her children and fiercely resilient, survives on her dreams: new shoes that might secure Harry's admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might marry the local rabbi; that the entire family might one day be whisked off to the paradise of America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then Harry's older sister, Lily, does the unthinkable: She falls in love with Arthur, a Christian boy from across the street. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Harry unwittingly discovers their secret affair, he must choose between the morals he's been taught all his life, his loyalty to his selfless mother, and what he knows to be true in his own heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0345496108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345496102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.29w x 0.77d","brand":"Harry Bernstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994839056639,"sku":"9780345496102","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ecd7f75-13be-4457-8342-899510efcf42.jpg?v=1683332475","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invisible-wall-harry-bernstein-9780345496102","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}