Based on actual events, a gripping novel of sex, love, history and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair"The story of what is arguably Israels foundational murder triala tale of multiple identities and loyalties." Joshua Cohen, PulitzerPrizewinning author of The NetanyahusPleases on several levels as an adventure tale, a starcrossed romance and a detailed period piece.The Wall Street Journal Its 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxfordeducated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitlers Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed. While preparing for the trial, Ivor, an innocent to the politics of the case, falls into bed and deeply in love with Tsiona, a freespirited artist who happened to sketch the accused men in a Jerusalem caf on the night of the murder and may be a key witness. As Ivor learns the hard way about the violence simmering just beneath the surface of British colonial rule, Jonathan Wilson dazzles with his mastery of the sundrenched landscape and the subtleties of the warring agendas among the Jews, Arabs, and British. And as he travels between the crime scene in Tel Aviv and the mazelike streets of Jerusalem, between the mounting mysteries surrounding this notorious case...

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: Schocken Books; Classification: FH; Weight: 398 g; Dimensions: 131 x 204 x 25

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