Evelyn Toynton’s THE ORIENTAL WIFE tells the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who escape Hitler’s Germany, meet again in New York, and fall in love both with each other and with America but after the war the stress of their lives as immigrants takes a toll on them and the family they form, to Other Press’ Judith Gurevich in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (world)
