by Mirjam Pressler · Julius Beltz GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783407742339
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«Nathan und seine Kinder» is the young adult novel by Mirjam Pressler, published by Julius Beltz GmbH in paperback (264 pages, in German).
In Jerusalem, around 1192 and during the Crusades, a young Templar saves Recha, the daughter of the Jewish merchant Nathan, from a fire. When Sultan Saladin asks him which is the true religion, Nathan responds with the parable of the three rings. Meanwhile, the Christian patriarch and a Muslim captain conspire against him.
Originally published in 2009 and reissued in 2018 by Beltz & Gelberg in its Gulliver line. Special prize from the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
Recommended for young readers aged 14 and up; frequently used as school reading in Germany to address religion and tolerance.
