The Nazi slaughter without resisting––a false generalization, but yet one that It was seenĪs a matter of survival for the Jewish people. Land and establishing a nation state was not just a political goal. In their minds driving the British out of the Making that difficult are the circumstances on the ground––his being part ofĪn underground cell that is not above using violence to win a civil war. Members who didn’t survive the Holocaust and to overcome the guilt that haunts He is driven by a desire to honor his family

Study––the story of a survivor who is trying to establish a new life in a timeĪnd place of complex conflicts. He also describes the complex political environment, focusing on the conflictīetween the British and Jews who were desperate to bring the refugees of the Life and events taking place in Jerusalem at this time.īuildings of 1946 Jerusalem as if he’d been there himself during those years. O’NanĬlearly did a large amount of research in an effort to accurately portray the Is to drive the resistance cell to actions against the British.įurst, Geraldine Brooks, and Chris Pavone, this reader found City of Secrets to be an odd book.

Uses to support himself as a taxi driver. The largest of the three Jewish paramilitary units organized to harass theĬell’s leader gives Brand a new name––Jossi––along with an old Peugeot which he The Holocaust from reaching the Holy Land beyond the small annual quota.īlockade, Brand is beholden to a resistance cell associated with the Haganah, Way through the blockade set up by the British to prevent Jewish refugees from The single un-Jewish name “Brand.” Brand is a Holocaust survivor who makes his “City of Secrets” probably not until that is Stewart O’Nan chose that title for his 2016 novel of the tumultuous years in the “Holy Land” after the end of the Second World War.Ībout the city of Jerusalem, which to a large extent it is, but it’s primarilyĪbout one member of a group of people campaigning to get Great Britain toįulfill its 1917 promise that the land west of the Jordan River become a

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