A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction It is the eve of Britain\'s withdrawal from Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Israel.
Judith Roth has escaped the concentration camps in Germany only to be plunged into the new conflict, one wit.
But the course of history is uncertain, and Israel\'s territorial enemies plan to smother the new country at its birth.
A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction It is the eve of Britain\'s withdrawal from Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Israel
