Exodus
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept...
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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553258479 (0553258478)
Publish date: 1983-11-01
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 599
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Jewish,
Religion,
World War II,
Israel,
Holocaust,
Judaism
Leon Uris bettet die historischen Ereignisse rund um die Gründung des Staates Israel in einen umfangreichen Roman ein. Kurz nach dem Ende des 2. Weltkrieges warten Tausende Juden in Lagern in Westeuropa und Zypern auf die Einreiseerlaubnis nach Palästina, das zu dem Zeitpunkt von Großbritannien be...
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An Israeli friend of mine first recommended Uris--particularly his The Haj, about Arab/Israeli relations, and I remember liking that novel. Maybe it's that my tastes have changed, or just that this was one of Uris' first novels, but my impression of this one is that it had the materials to be a grip...
Too much war and politics for my reading taste. And it's a bit one-sided, holy moly. Jews good, Arabs bad. Jews good, British bad. Jews good, everyone else bad. Puh-leeeeeeze. There's good and bad in EVERYone. Glad to be finally finished with this one. Self-important books are not my thing...
Even though I was caught up in the book when I first read it, I had to leave it halfway through... and when I went back to it some years later, after learning more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (not the American-Israeli fiction, but real history), I felt I couldn't read it, it was so nausea...
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