Your brother's blood: A novel

by Zoltan Erenyi

"Your Broother's Blood" is a historical novel therefore it is ageless. It describes the time segment between the years of 1945-1949 when the Jewish survivors of the concentration camps in the Allied Zones - having been crammed into refugee camps - struggled against the policies of the British Foreign Office and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice both which put almost insurmountable obstacles against Jews wanting to emigrate to Palestine and to the United States, respectively.
The proofs about the two governments' obstruction stated in the novel are irrefutable and that makes the work timeless. To mellow the serious tone of the novel there is a singular and moving love story that forms it's background between an older woman, the charismatic American administrator of a refugee (Displaced Persons) camp and a young university student in the camp, a survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Their romance endures even after their arrival in the U.S.
The main narrative is interspersed by a series of small vignettes, we may call them short-short stories, of which some are lighthearted and humurous, while some are tension-filled, dramatic, even violkent; they are necessary to characterize the DP life on both sides of the Atlantic and the struglle of the DP's to start their new life as they want to leave the memory of the war horrors behind them.

641 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994