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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Didn’t really enjoy ( ) This was a really well written book about the early jewish settlers in what would become Israel, and to be honest it seems like they were kind of dicks to the muslim people who already were living there. I know this is fiction, but still. The book is broken up into 3 parts, each focusing on a different character, and how they perceive the same events. Pretty much everyone is messed up in their own way, and no one is really likeable except for the little girl Ruth. It held my interest though. I won this from a goodreads giveaway. no reviews | add a review
From Alison Pick, Booker longlisted author of FAR TO GO comes a suspenseful, dystopian reimagining of the founding of a kibbutz in 1920s Palestine, for readers of WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES, THE HANDMAID'S TALE or THE POWER. 'We came into their valley at dawn'. From three vastly different points of view, Alison Pick relates the story of a group of Jewish pioneers, many escaping violent homelands, who have come together to found a kibbutz on a patch of land that will later become Israel. With tightly controlled intensity, Pick takes us into three very different minds to show us how a utopian dream is punctured by messy human entanglements. Yet this is also the story of the land itself (present day Israel and Palestine), revealing the way the newcomers chose to ignore the fact that their valley was already populated, home to a people that the pioneers did not want to see. In writing of extraordinary, at times heartbreaking power, Pick has created unforgettable characters, haunted by ghosts and compromised by unbearable secrets. The novel's shocking conclusion is a tour de force, the work of a writer uniquely in control of her craft and with an extraordinary insight into the innermost workings of the human heart. No library descriptions found. |
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