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A Strange Death: A Story of Betrayal, Vengeance, and Memory within a Jewish Village in Old Palestine - Hardcover
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A mesmerizing recreation of a village in Palestine and its characters, each gently and carefully called back from the past to tell their stories in a literary narrative of uncommon power and affection. In 1917, the members of a spy ring who sought to assist the British in driving the Turks from Palestine were betrayed. Two were hanged; one, the iconically beautiful Sarah Aaronsohn, shot herself to escape torture and died a lingering death four days later. It was said that four of the women of the town of Zichron were seen laughing hysterically as the arrests of their neighbors were carried out. Each met a strange fate: one died prematurely, the second went mad, the third was an invalid and the fourth lived out her life in disrepute. When Hillel Halkin read this story of the village that he lived in, it inspired him to begin a journey into the past. His friends and neighbors each offered a different version of the events of 1917, and Halkin discovered that each of them was in...
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'Halkin reminds us about who we really are: disputatious, nostalgic, hopeful and fond.' (David Aaronovitch THE TIMES )
'Halkin is a master storyteller who understands the value of suspense.' (JEWISH CHRONICLE )
'an elegantly crafted and lyrical elegy....' (THE TABLET ) --tablet
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Gripping tale of betrayal and deception in a hilltop village in 1917 Palestine.
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- PublisherPublicAffairs,U.S.
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1586482718
- ISBN 13 9781586482718
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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