Strangers with the same dream
Book |
Knopf Canada,
Toronto :
2017.
- 3 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial | FIC PICK 2017 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Stevensville | FIC PICK 2017 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Welland Main | FIC Pick | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
Is 1921, and a band of young Jewish pioneers, many escaping violent homelands, have set out to realize a utopian dream--the founding of a kibbutz--on a patch of land that will later become Israel. Writing with a tightly controlled intensity, Alison Pick takes us inside the very different minds of her three key characters--two young unmarried women, one plain and one beautiful, escaping peril in Russia and Europe; and one slightly older man, a group leader who is married with two children--to depict how idealism quickly tumbles into pragmatism, and how the utopian dream is punctured by messy human entanglements. This is also the story of the land itself (present-day Israel and Palestine), revealing with sympathy and terrible irony how the enthusiastic newcomers chose to ignore the subtle but undeniable fact that their valley was already populated, home to a people that the pioneers did not want to see.
Details
- ISBN: 9780345810458
- ISBN: 0345810457
- Physical Description: 368 pages ; 22 cmprint
- Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2017.
- General Note: LSC 32.95