After escaping from a Jewish refugee ship, Dov, a Polish Jew, and Emily, the daughter of a British major, are taken to a Jewish kibbutz and are caught up in the danger and violence between the Jews, Arabs, and British in Palestine in 1947.
During the thirty - day period of his absence the husband could have died or otherwise been prevented from returning home . If he did eventually return after thirty days , he would have been divorced from his wife and the woman might ...
This compulsively readable novel recreates a lost time, when the future was more important than the past and anything seemed possible.
"Original versions: English and Arabic, Geneva and Ramallah, 2007"--T.p. verso.
The author takes us beyond the history books, into the real world of the Jewish Underground of the 1920s and 30s, before there was a State of Israel.
Palestine: A Modern History