| Author: | Halkin, Hillel | ISBN: | 1230000993630 |
| Publisher: | The Toby Press, LLC | Publication: | March 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Halkin, Hillel |
| ISBN: | 1230000993630 |
| Publisher: | The Toby Press, LLC |
| Publication: | March 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
During World War I, the head of a British spy ring in a Jewish colony in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, the beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, killed herself when the ring was broken by Turks, leaving behind a letter in which she asked to be avenged. Was she? A Strange Death is the answer to this. But it is many other things, too. A tantalizing murder mystery. A lyrical evocation of Israeli town in the 1970s and of its old farming population, the descendants of the colonists who founded it in 1882.
"Hillel Halkin's A Strange Death is a personal adventure into the past whose skilled, gripping prose moves back and forth between the documentary and the imaginative... An artful treatment of history worthy of the highest praise." - A.B. YEHOSHUA
During World War I, the head of a British spy ring in a Jewish colony in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, the beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, killed herself when the ring was broken by Turks, leaving behind a letter in which she asked to be avenged. Was she? A Strange Death is the answer to this. But it is many other things, too. A tantalizing murder mystery. A lyrical evocation of Israeli town in the 1970s and of its old farming population, the descendants of the colonists who founded it in 1882.
"Hillel Halkin's A Strange Death is a personal adventure into the past whose skilled, gripping prose moves back and forth between the documentary and the imaginative... An artful treatment of history worthy of the highest praise." - A.B. YEHOSHUA
