The Children at the Gate

Name: The Children at the Gate
Author: Edward Lewis Wallant

by Edward Lewis Wallant

Novel exploring compassion and redemption among the poor and marginalized of a city

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Edward Lewis Wallant

Edward Lewis Wallant wrote four concentrated novels of moral anguish and redemption before dying at thirty-six. The Pawnbroker is a harrowing masterpiece about a Holocaust survivor's damaged emotional life in New York.

More by Edward Lewis Wallant

The PawnbrokerNovel of a Holocaust survivor turned pawnbroker struggling with trauma and moral paralysis
The Human SeasonNovel depicting a middle-aged man's existential crisis during a single transformative season
The Tenants of MoonbloomComic novel of a hapless apartment building manager attempting to transform his tenants' lives