A Jewish queen of Babylon, who saved her people from being exterminated, years later, suffers from trauma and fears as we see her mental struggle against a future threat of death to her people.

Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Irving's “Queen Esther ... for the 1999 movie adaptation. Michael Caine, who played Dr. Larch, received an Oscar for best supporting actor.

Esther succeeds in enchanting the king with her extraordinary beauty and charm, and he makes her his queen. The king promotes his loyal subject Haman - whose family is notably anti-Jewish - to the ...

whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esther, a Jewish orphan girl, is chosen by King Ahasuerus of Persia to be his queen.