An Admirable Woman

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

An “unusual and distinguished novel” that both is—and isn’t—a portrait of Hannah Arendt, and which “demands one’s full attention.” (Anita Brooker, The Sunday Times)

Erika Hertz is a Berlin-born Jewish intellectual who, with her art historian husband Martens, fled Nazi Germany for New York. It was Martens's impressive reputation that won them their sanctuary, but it’s Erika who’s supported them with her journalism. In the years since, she’...