by Susan Jane Gilman · Insel Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458361428
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«Die Königin der Orchard Street» is the historical novel by Susan Jane Gilman, published by Insel Verlag GmbH in paperback (552 pages, in German).
In 1913, Malka Treynovsky emigrates to New York with her family. After being crippled and abandoned, she is taken in by an Italian immigrant who makes a living selling ice cream; she learns the trade, falls in love with Albert, a young radical, and travels the country in a truck until she becomes Lillian Dunkle, the Ice Cream Queen, owner of a franchise empire that her past puts in danger.
German translation by Eike Schönfeld; the English original, «The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street», appeared in 2014. Number 4442 in the Insel Taschenbuch collection.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction, immigration stories and the American dream, with a tenacious female protagonist who makes her own way.
Susan Jane Gilman is an American writer and novelist. She is the author of two novels, The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street (2014) and Donna Has Left the Building (2019) in addition to three non-fiction books: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven (2009); Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress (2005); and Kiss My Tiara (2001).
