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Day After Night

by Anita Diamant

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Anita Diamant's story of four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, who find friendship, love, and salvation in a post-war British camp in Palestine.

Hardcover, 294 pages

Published September 8th 2009 by Scribner (first published 2009)

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May 18, 2011

Barbara rated it

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In 1948, when I was a very young child, Israel was granted statehood. I remember the joy and the celebration among my family and community. Certainly much has been written about the Holocaust, about the efforts of traumatized Jews to reach Israel and the turmoil that has occurred since it became a recognized country (by some, not all). In this novel, many events have been either omitted or lacked much attention. Diamant has written an account of an internment camp for "illegals" in Is...moreIn 1948, when I was a very young child, Israel was granted statehood. I remember the joy and the celebration among my family and community. Certainly much has been written about the Holocaust, about the efforts of traumatized Jews to reach Israel and the turmoil that has occurred since it became a recognized country (by some, not all). In this novel, many events have been either omitted or lacked much attention. Diamant has written an account of an internment camp for "illegals" in Israel in 1945, following WW II. This story is apparently gleaned from true events.

The story is told through the eyes of four young women who are imprisoned there. Each recounts her experience through the war. This camp, Atilit, was dreary, barren and depressing, completely enclosed by barbed wire. Can you imagine surviving the horrors and barbarism of a concentration camp, or spent in hiding with constant fears for safety, only to be caged again with armed guards surrounding you? To add further insult, the travel to Israel was grueling, miserable, difficult and protracted. The only redeeming factors of the camp were real beds, a semblance of clothing, food and the comfort of human relationships.

I had looked forward to reading this book because I had enjoyed Diamant's The Red Tent and I have an avid interest in a literature of this period of history. However, much of this novel seemed superficial and did not stress many of the true painful and intense events that the characters endured. In some instances there were mere suggestions of occurrences and hardships. No mention was made of the difficult trials in travel to "The Promised Land". It was also difficult throughout this recounting to keep the characters straight, due to the style of shifting from one to another and trying to recall all of the foreign sounding names. More input regarding historical events surrounding this time would have added a greater dimension to the book.

Despite the aforementioned criticisms, Diamant capably developed most of her characters. A thread of tension was present throughout, especially for the hope and expectation that these people would finally gain their freedom. The denouement was a further element of suspense for the reader, although I felt that the climax was rather hasty.(less)

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Oct 24, 2009

Louise rated it

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I suppose since this novel was compared to Diamant's bestselling 'THE RED TENT', which to this very day remains my favourite book of all time, I might have unknowningly set myself up for disappointment. This story was not at all what I expected, nor did I feel Diamant's writing was on par with THE RED TENT. However, having said that, I did enjoy it for the most part, but felt it just went on and on and on a little too much. It was like she was stalling for time so she could figure out where and ...more

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Jan 15, 2011

Anya Yankelevich rated it

This is Diamant's second book that I've read. I enjoyed The Red Tent, and also this one. The Red Tent had a broader sense of place and history, and I think better language and character. Then again, having just finished this one, I may appreciate it more as I reflect on it. I think the strength of this novel lies in the concise and honest portrayal of the characters in how they mask and express their experiences. I got the sense that had she revealed more about the character's backstory (and rea...more

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Jan 19, 2010

Jeanette rated it

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At first sad, but ultimately hopeful. Life does go on, whether we want it to or not. We must join with others in making it meaningful, even after great loss.

We think a lot about the many millions who died in the Holocaust, perhaps less often about those who were left standing. They were told they were "lucky" to be alive. But how do you find joy again, or even the desire for joy, after you've lost every person and thing you loved? When you've witnessed and been subject...more

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Sep 10, 2010

Colleen rated it

When pondering the horrors of the Holocaust, it is not often that one considers what occurred after the Germans lost the war. I may envision families reuniting, people starting over, or at the least relief over sudden freedom. In truth however, many Jewish citizens became "illegal" immigrants and were imprisoned in internment camps run by the British military.
Much like a concentration camp, Atlit prison was surrounded by barbed wire fences. This vision alone was enough to remind ...more

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Jul 06, 2010

Julie rated it

Life is a journey filled with people, places and events over which we often have no control. In spite of the circumstances that bring these young women together, they have all survived the Holocaust. They cautiously bond and create a family to replace the families they have lost and together find hope for the future.

I read this book in 2 days. I could not put it down. At the end, I was sobbing! How can we not be touched and appalled by the tragedy of this period of history? How...more

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Jan 17, 2012

Jana Perskie rated it

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As WWII loomed, and Hitler tightened the noose around the Jews of Europe, Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," took place throughout Germany on November 9th and 10th, 1938. Almost 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps, 200 synagogues were destroyed, and 91 Jews were beaten to death.

The British, which ruled Palestine after WWI, were aware of the importance of Arab oil to successfully fight the coming war. They published a White Paper on May 17, 1939, that reduce...more

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Aug 24, 2011

Danielle rated it

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I immediately recognized this book as being by the same author as The Red Tent because I think Anita Diamant is a fantastic name, and it's one that has stuck in my head. Anyway, I liked The Red Tent well enough, and I enjoy WWII-era books, so this one seemed an obvious choice for a quick read.
Even with middling-to-high expectations, this book was a pleasant surprise. I think Diamant is a good writer and an excellent story teller. On top of that, the real-life events of life in the Palestin...more

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Jul 26, 2011

Stacy rated it

This was a very, very good book. It explores the Holocaust from a viewpoint usually overlooked--the aftermath. The story takes place in a British detention center in Palestine in 1945. Jewish refugees from Europe have all fled to the British colony of Palestine to claim it as a homeland, a safe haven. However, they arrive and are immediately swept into a detention center vey reminiscent of the concentration camps--except with more food and real showers. But, the barbed wire, the military presen...more

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Jun 24, 2011

Jess rated it

I started reading this book without having read anything by Anita Diamant, not knowing what the book was about. It took a while for me to get into the story, perhaps becuase I didn't like that Anita dedicated the first four or five chapters to each of the characters and pieces of their life. However, towards the end of the book, I became very much engaged in the story and was very excited to see how the story ended. However, since the begining of the book had me uninterested, once finished wi...more

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Jun 08, 2011

Deena rated it

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It started out promising and I thought I was going to get a really good idea of the after effects from the survivors of the Holocaust, which is not something you hear as much about. I was also intrigued with the idea that the Jews were not treated well even after all they had been through, though it makes sense given how they have been treated throughout history. Still, you would think people would be more sympathetic. Anyway, the book made me want to read real stories from survivors. As far as ...more

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May 11, 2011

Hoosier rated it

Anita Diamant's novel "Day After Night" is nothing less than a masterpiece, and I have not enjoyed a book so much in years. "Day After Night" follows the post-Holocaust story of four women who were liberated from Atlit, a British internment camp in Palestine. If for nothing else, this book should be read to learn about "hope."

The four women, Leonie, Tedi, Zorah, and Shayndel, ended up in the internment camp after either surviving concentration camps, wo...more

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Apr 04, 2011

Sue rated it

Excellent. written 2009
Atlit was built by the British in 1938 to house their own troop but at the end of the war as "European Jews began making their way to their ancestral home (Eretz Yisrael)in violation of international political agreement, the mandate in Palestine became messier... Atlit was turned into a prison a detention center for refugees without the permissory papers." Have you heard of this? I hadn't. Anita Diamant dedicates the book in memory of her grandfather, Abe ...more

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Feb 18, 2011

Susie rated it

It was a good read. Not the best, enjoyable, and a different book than I expected, it was more a novel about relationships with some holocaust experiences thrown in rather than information and stories about post WWII Jewish experience in Palestine. I suppose that's a ton easier to write about than doing massive amounts of historical research. I would recommend it, it's just not THE best.

Just a few things that bothered me...

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Oct 15, 2010

Kiwiflora rated it

WWII continues to be a very rich and diverse source of material for novels both entirely fictional and those based on historical incidents. One such incident was the escape in 1945 of 200 refugee immigrants in a British illegals displacement camp in Israel with the help of Jewish settler partisans. The escape happens towards the end of the story, but the escape is not really what the book is about. It is about four young Jewish women, none older than 21, who have all been displaced by the war in...moreWWII continues to be a very rich and diverse source of material for novels both entirely fictional and those based on historical incidents. One such incident was the escape in 1945 of 200 refugee immigrants in a British illegals displacement camp in Israel with the help of Jewish settler partisans. The escape happens towards the end of the story, but the escape is not really what the book is about. It is about four young Jewish women, none older than 21, who have all been displaced by the war in Europe. Polish-born Shayndel was orphaned during the war and ended up fighting with partisans; Dutch-born Tedi is half-Jewish and spends most of the war in hiding until she is betrayed and sent off to a camp; Leonie is Parisian who is saved by brothel keeper, and has a miserable time trying to stay alive as a prostitute; and finally Zorah, also Polish who manages to survive the horrors of the concentration camp. All very damaged emotionally and physically, they find themselves in Israel as there is really nowhere else for them to go and they are promised that Israel will finally be the home they are looking for.

The girls are just four of the couple of hundred men, women and children in the camp where they have to learn to live a normal life again, to trust people and build relationships and friendships. There are nightmares to get through, symbols such as the barbed wire of the camps reminding the internees of the concentration camps, physical health to rebuild.

The establishment of the state of Israel by the British and the United Nations forms the background to the story, the displacement of the Palestinians barely rates a mention, and the British come across as the enemy with the exception of a few of the the British running the immigrant camp.

So is it a good book? Well, good plot, interesting characters, plenty of action and tension, but something is missing. I felt like I was reading a narrative: he said, then she said, then she said. It just felt a bit too one dimensional. The richness of writing that made 'The Red Tent' so special and memorable, for me, just is not there. Maybe it is not supposed to be there, the subject matter of internment camps and the tragedies of the people who find themselves there perhaps do not lend themselves to rich, beautiful writing. Still it is book worth reading simply for the history it chronicles. (less)

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Jun 23, 2010

Jayne Bowers rated it

Although I had a bit of a challenge keeping the names of all the characters straight, I enjoyed reading Anita Diamant's Day after Night. The scene is an internment camp, Atlit, where thousands of Jews were held captive by the British military after WWII. While the primary focus is on four extraordinary and different (from each other) young women (Tedi, Leonie, Zorah, and Shayndel), other characters enter their lives and play significant roles. For example, Tirzah is the camp cook and is privy to...moreAlthough I had a bit of a challenge keeping the names of all the characters straight, I enjoyed reading Anita Diamant's Day after Night. The scene is an internment camp, Atlit, where thousands of Jews were held captive by the British military after WWII. While the primary focus is on four extraordinary and different (from each other) young women (Tedi, Leonie, Zorah, and Shayndel), other characters enter their lives and play significant roles. For example, Tirzah is the camp cook and is privy to much useful information because of her relationship with the camp commander.

Every single person in the camp has a unique past and a special dream for the future, and I was both fascinated and impressed as I learned more about this time in history and what these young women and others like them had to suffer. Although quite young, they had already lost family and friends and were determined to make better lives for themselves IF they could only get out of Atlit. While life in Atlit is safe (especially compared to the lives these women had lived before arriving there), it's still an internment camp, and they can't go anywhere. They're trapped as prisoners behind barbed wire.

Much of the novel centers around a plan to escape from Atlit, an event that actually took place. In fact, one of the reasons I found myself drawn to the book is because of the historical fiction aspect. Atlit really existed, and Yitzhak Rabin helped around 200 detainees escape in October of 1945. Whether their names were Zorah or Tedi doesn't matter. The escapees were probably quite similar. Just like the characters in The Red Tent, these people seem real, and Diamant's characterizations made the events come alive for me. Because of the book, I became so interested in this time and place that I did a little background reading and learned that Atlit still exists as a museum; the pictures were haunting.

The title is perfect. After a long night (symbolically speaking) of suffering, loss, grief, and heartache, day follows as the detainees escape to begin their new lives
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Jun 16, 2010

Sally rated it

Day After Night is a historical fiction that gives us a glimpse into the lives of four young European Jewish women who have survived the Holocaust and have come to Isreal for a new life but now are languishing in Atlit, a British internment camp for illegal immigrants in Isreal, in late 1945. As they wait to be allowed entrance into Isreal, we are given a taste of their life in the camp, together with a look into how each of the women managed to survive the Holocaust.

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Jan 28, 2010

Dawn rated it

This was sad and hopeful, a up-close look at life for survivors after the Holocaust. I never really knew there was a place like Atlit, or even what a Kibbutz was. These characters were real, and human and trying to figure out how to create a life for themselves after the horrors they had been through and seen. I felt extremely appalled, as I do every time I am exposed to information regarding this horrible time in our history, that it was their fellow human beings who inflicted these horrors upo...more

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Jan 24, 2010

Judy rated it

I don't generally give a book five stars, but this book really touched me. I enjoyed the two previous books by Anita Diamant that I have read--The Red Tent and The Last Days of Dogtown, but this book moved me in a different way. The story is about the growing friendship between four Jewish women from different parts of Europe who meet in a British detention camp for illegal Jewish refugees in Palestine. The story takes place between August and October 1945 as the world is trying to come to te...more

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Oct 11, 2009

Denise rated it

I have spent much of 2009 reading excellent novels that relate different perspectives of the horror that was WW II and the effects of the Holocaust on people from different countries. In Sarah's Key, I read what happened at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in France, in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle), I discovered what happened during the war on an island I'd never heard of, in Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel, I accompanied a family fleeing westward ahead o...moreI have spent much of 2009 reading excellent novels that relate different perspectives of the horror that was WW II and the effects of the Holocaust on people from different countries. In Sarah's Key, I read what happened at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in France, in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle), I discovered what happened during the war on an island I'd never heard of, in Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel, I accompanied a family fleeing westward ahead of the advancing Russians, in Those Who Save Us, I read what desperate men and women did in occupied Germany. This novel is another wonderful testament to the strength of the human spirit in the face of unspeakable guilt -- the guilt of being a survivor of the ravages of the Nazis and the Final Solution.

This story takes place in Atlit -- the internment camp south of Hafia, Israel, after the war is over when thousands of Jews escaped Europe for their promised land, only to be imprisoned and held by the British military instead of being allowed to join the kibbutzes established there. Four remarkable young women from different backgrounds meet there and attempt to adjust to life and to deal with the consequences of what they did to survive the fates that claimed the lives of their friends and families.

I loved the women -- Shayndel, a Polish Zionist with a heroine's reputation; Zorah, the concentration camp survivor who hides the tattoo on her arm; Tedi, a Dutch girl who escaped most of the ravages of war by being hidden; and Leonie, from France, who avoided the roundup due to her looks and her wartime occupation. The experiences that the girls had during the war are revealed in vignettes as we get to know each one and her secrets very slowly as they suffer a day to day existence in the camp. The jobs they do, the contacts they have, and the relationships that manage to thrive despite the collective horror are heartwarming and inspiring. Both realistic and desperately hopeful, the girls do whatever they can to find some explanation or reason why they did not perish.

Anita Diamant is a superb writer whose prose rings true in every sense. This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. (ARC)
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Sep 06, 2009

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This book deals with an handful of women at Atlit "displaced persons" camp in Palestine just after World War II. A quota had been set for how many Jews could immigrate to the new Eretz Yisrael, but of course hundreds of thousands more were trying to get in. They got rounded up and sent to these camps, run by the British, which were heartbreakingly similar in appearance to the concentration camps that many of them had just gotten out of. The treatment was far bet...more

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Sep 23, 2010

Agatha rated it

Historical fiction. Based on the true story of the October 1945 rescue of Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for refugees fleeing post-war Europe run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast. In "real life," Yitzhak Rabin was one of the rescuers. In this book, the story is told through the eyes of four European Jewish survivors, all young women, who all came from different backgrounds: a Parisian Jew forced into prostitution during the war; a Poli...more

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Sep 10, 2010

Elizabeth Sulzby rated it

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Recommends it for: anyone interested in Israel's history

I am not reading the Kindle Edition. It's got covers and pages I can touch. I could not put it down although I agree with some others that it's not a Red Tent. The writing does not call attention to itself and that was helpful for this topic. I realized my collapsing of history had made me think that European Jews only came to Israel shortly before or at the 1948 Mandate date--dumb mistake given that I know better but I did not know details like this book brings to life. The 4 young women o...more

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Apr 03, 2009

Jackie rated it

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This book deals with an handful of women at Atlit "displaced persons" camp in Palestine just after World War II. A quota had been set for how many Jews could immigrate to the new Eretz Yisrael, but of course hundreds of thousands more were trying to get in. They got rounded up and sent to these camps, run by the British, which were heartbreakingly similar in appearance to the concentration camps that many of them had just gotten out of. The treatment was far better, but they were s...more

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Oct 31, 2010

cheryl rated it

I'd venture up to 4.5 but can't quite round it up to 5 stars. In part, this may be because it isn't The Red Tent...another novel by Diamant that is on my all-time favorites list.

This book focuses on a British-run camp in Israel that houses Jewish men and women in the post-WWII era. These people are undocumented immigrants and all are survivors of WWII in Europe. The story focuses on a small group of women brought together in the camp. They have different stories of how they lived...more

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Sep 16, 2009

Erika rated it

Anita Diamant’s Day After Night is a fictionalized account of the 1945 rescue of the prisoners being held in the Atlit internment camp near Hafia, close to the Mediterranean coast. Fresh from their memories of Nazi concentration camps, illegal immigrants crossing the borders, most often in their attempt to reach Palestine and Israel, have been taken into custody by the British military and placed in eerily similar surroundings: barbed wire fences, barracks separating men from women, delousing s...moreAnita Diamant’s Day After Night is a fictionalized account of the 1945 rescue of the prisoners being held in the Atlit internment camp near Hafia, close to the Mediterranean coast. Fresh from their memories of Nazi concentration camps, illegal immigrants crossing the borders, most often in their attempt to reach Palestine and Israel, have been taken into custody by the British military and placed in eerily similar surroundings: barbed wire fences, barracks separating men from women, delousing stations, showers. The only difference, as our protagonists insist upon the frightened and bewildered newcomers arriving almost every day, is that here, all will be fed and taken care of; the showers are real showers.

But the prisoners are angry, angry because they survived one war only to become pawns in another power struggle where one nation seeks to impose authority on another and they’ll risk everything they have to be free.

Told primarily from the point of view of four women, Tedi, Zorah, Shayndel, and Leonie (with a fifth, Tirzah, thrown in for the contrasting perspective), Day After Night explores what it could mean to be happy in a place like Atlit, so incongruous in appearance with what really goes on behind the enclosure. As much a jail as a safehouse, these women struggle through their personal demons in the weeks leading up to the October rescue. Diamant imagines Atlit being something like a therapeutic nightmare in which the women find solace in each other, getting to know one another as much as they try to keep their distance, too hurt by their own haunting pasts to confide their true stories to one another.

Together, the women remain strong and support one another, finding spirit in the small miracles of the everyday: fresh fruit, full meals, showers, clean clothes, pillows and blankets at night, doctors that are there to be doctors and not experiment, burgeoning romance, scandalous affairs. In the limbo of Atlit, Tedi is reminded that “...everything was coming back to her in Palestine” (p. 7), even her sense of smell long thought lost, another victim of the war. Ironically, her imprisonment, like the other women, has turned into a type of healing in the between of being frightened before the end of the war, and true freedom after it.

In Atlit, the woman are “in the land of milk and honey…” (p. 90), a type of heaven where they are allowed a chance to heal their scars in preparation for the real world, a beautiful nightmare slumber, a peaceful and restful night before the day of their true freedom. I thought the prologue was particularly lovely, setting the mood for the story like an overture, touching the title and bringing it back to us as much as the epilogue brought the story to reality and back to fiction again.

Day After Night is a novel of hope, wishful thinking on the part of the author in like-minded sentiment with Gershon, “I hope she was happy. I hope all of them were” (p. 292). If the narrative at times made me forget the seriousness of the women’s situation, it only serves to remind me the intent of the author to wish this same feeling on the women who did stay there, who were forced to relive the phantom reminders of their past at the same time as they were trying to move forward. In the context of the novel, the women found a kind of peace in Atlit, smothering their hated pasts in the sheets of their nightmare, tossing the pillow aside as they walked outside, never to return.

I thought Day After Night was a good book. Diamant has a lot of talent in writing about dynamic women and their relationships to one another. If you’re a fan of her work, I recommend this one. If you’ve never read anything by her, I still recommend it. Overall, it was a touching, powerful read.(less)

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Aug 31, 2010

Jennifer Weiss rated it

Every time I wonder if I should read yet another Holocaust book, another one introduces me to situations I haven't read about before. This one is about the Internment Camps for displaced persons (Jews) after the end of WWII... those people who had nowhere to go, had already suffered unspeakable losses and atrocities, were "freed," and yet were now astonishingly being held as prisoners until the Allies could find "somewhere to put them." I knew about this, historically, but th...more

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Jan 22, 2010

Eileen Souza rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This was a good book on a point in history that I did not have any idea existed - but it took a hard fall with the ending, which dropped it down a star.

This is the story of four jewish girls who survived WWII in a variety of ways, and with their lives destroyed and families gone, decided to go to Palestine to try to build the Israeli state. Once they made their way to Palestine, they were captured by the British as "illegal immigrants" and brought to another camp where they...more

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Sep 14, 2009

Allison rated it

I have just about given up on contemporary literature. It seems you can't write a book anymore (even a historical one) without bringing in the erotic and profane. While it was a "good story" (mainly because it was true), there was too much gory detail where there could have been less, and it left me disturbed. I suppose that, sometimes, is the point of remembering something like the Holocaust and it's messy aftermath. You are supposed to feel disturbed; you are supposed to remember...more

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Apr 28, 2011

Katy Major rated it

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Shelves: 2011, borrowed, fiction, historical, holocaust

My response to this book was lukewarm -- as lukewarm as the clumsy, overly-sentimental dialogue, bland descriptions, and the wealth of platitudes that litter the pages of this book.

I've read my fair share of Holocaust books (as emphasized by the fact that I have a Goodreads bookshelf devoted to the Holocaust). It's a morbidly fascinating subject. This doesn't entirely qualify as a Holocaust book, though, because although all of the characters, experienced the Holocaust, we first meet...more

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Anita Diamant is a prizewinning journalist whose work has appeared regularly in the Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting magazine. She is the author of six books about contemporary Jewish practice, one collection of autobiographical essays (Pitching My Tent) and three prior novels. The Red Tent, her first novel, was a national bestseller and the Booksense Book of the Year. Good Harbor and The Last ...more

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