Wednesday, August 26, 2009

In My Hot Little Hands


I wanted to tell all my Jewish readers about a new book, that was just delivered by my mailman. Just delivered in my hot little hands. It is Day after Night by Anita Diamant published by Simon and Schuster.

Anita Diamant is the author of The Red Tent and a few other Jewish parenting books.

From the book jacket flap:

Based on the extrodinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prosoners from the atlit internment camps, a proson for ilegal immigrants run by the British military mear the Mediterranean coast north of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp with profundly different stories. All of them survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonite a Parisian beauty; Tedi a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi, and Zorah find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country.

This is a unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption, a novel that reimagines a moment in history with such stunning elogquence that we are haunted amd moved by every devastating detail.








I can't wait to read this one. A good boook it sounds like right in time for the Jewish high holidays. It will be released on September8,2009. Thank you Anita for the copy to read and review on my Jewish blog.

4 comments:

teabird said...

Thank you for mentioning this book - the publishing date is so very appropriate!

Anonymous said...

How wonderful! Anything of hers is always a great read.

Shabbat Shalom!

Melissa said...

Hello!

I just found your blog via Jew Wishes.

I love Anita Diamant. Have you read the Red Tent? She is a great author.

Thank you.

Melissa

Anonymous said...

I've given you an award.

http://jewwishes.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/jew-wishes-on-photo-challenge-and-award/

 
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