National Jewish Book Award winner Ron Balson returns triumphantly with Eli\'s Promise , a captivating saga of the Holocaust and its aftermath spanning decades and continents.
He lives in Chicago.
He is also the author of Karolina\'s Twins, The Trust, Saving Sophie, and the international bestseller, Once We Were Brothers.
His novel The Girl From Berlin won the National Jewish Book Award and was the Illinois Reading Council\'s adult fiction selection for the Illinois Reads program.
Balson is an attorney, professor, and writer.
About author(s): RONALD H.
Balson \'s Eli\'s Promise is a rich, rewarding novel of World War II and a husband\'s quest for justice.
Powerful and emotional, Ronald H.
With patience, cunning, and relentless focus, he navigates unfamiliar streets and dangerous political backrooms, searching for the truth.
He is on a mission.
One man is sneaking around the camps selling illegal visas; might he know what has happened to her? 1965: Eli rents a room in Albany Park, Chicago.
His wife has been missing since the war.
Will Poleski honor his Promise or will their relationship end in betrayal and tragedy? 1946: Eli resides with his son in a displaced persons camp in Allied-occupied Germany hoping for a visa to America.
An uneasy alliance is formed
Poleski will keep the Rosen family safe if Eli will manage the business.
As a consequence of the Nazi occupation, Eli\'s company is Aryanized, appropriated and transferred to Maximilian Poleski--an unprincipled profiteer who peddles favors to Lublin\'s subjugated residents. 1939: Eli Rosen lives with his wife Esther and their young son in the Polish town of Lublin, where his family owns a construction company.
Balson explores the human cost of war, the mixed blessings of survival, and the enduring strength of family bonds.
Award-winning author Ronald H.
Eli\'s Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras--Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. -- Pam Jenoff, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Lost Girls of Paris A fixer in a Polish town during World War II, his betrayal of a Jewish family, and a search for justice 25 years later--by the winner of the National Jewish Book Award.
Balson\'s meticulous historical detail, vivid prose and unforgettable characters further solidify his place among the most esteemed writers of historical fiction today.
Readers will not be able to put this book down, but will turn the pages compulsively with heart in throat, eager to learn the fate of the Rosen family.
National Jewish Book Award winner Ron Balson returns triumphantly with Eli\'s Promise , a captivating saga of the Holocaust and its aftermath spanning decades and continents
