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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
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The Book of Esther, also known as the Megillah, is one of the five stories in the Writings section of the Old Testament. The story is well known to both Christians and Jews as the tale of the heroic Esther who saves her people from annihilation by the evil Haman.The holiday of Purim is celebrated every year by the Jewish community with costumes, parades and tri-cornered fruit-filled pastries called Hamentashen.But before Esther, there was Vashti, the king’s first wife. Her defiance of his order to debase herself for the amusement of his cronies led to her being banished from the kingdom. This paved the way for Esther to take her place, and Vashti was never heard from again.Until now.Throughout the centuries, Vashti has been both vilified and praised. She s portrayed as the bitch of the land, or hailed as the first Feminist. The argument has been raging for decades.After a mysterious manuscript titled Vashti’s Daughter keeps appearing at her office and home, twenty-nine-year-old book publisher Anna Steine is haunted by dreams where she is living in 366 BCE.With the help of reincarnation experts, archeologists and a Kabbalah astrologer, Anna discovers she is, in fact, Adara, the reincarnated daughter of Queen Vashti, the first wife of King Achashverosh of the Book of Esther.Risking her company and budding relationship with book’s author, Dr. Nathaniel Braverman, a Middle Eastern Studies professor at Brandeis University, she must find a way to break an ancient
