The Covenant
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312335067 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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vicki tate said I love Naomi's pespectives. FIRST! I am not a litarary in any way. I love Naomi's pespectives. This may be an early attempt, as it does not seem to be really complex and compelling. I have loved other works by this writer.. making it easy to sympathise with them Amazon Customer Highly emotive parallel story-lines, perfectly switching between the past and the present. The characters are well-drawn, making it easy to sympathise with them.. Point of View Rather Than Opinion The Covenant is a novel full of incendiary material. In the post 9/11 world, we have all had to take sides in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the Arab/Israeli conflict which is at the heart of this novel.No matter which side you are on, living through the lives of the characters in The Covenant can open your eyes. R
From Publishers Weekly Ragen, an American writer who's lived in Israel for more than 30 years, blends tragedies of the past with headline news of today in her gripping, emotionally charged sixth novel. Elise's frantic call to her Bubbee Leah in Brooklyn reunites four women—now grandmas and great-grandmas—who, as girls, made the titular covenant: if they survived Auschwitz, they would become "one person, risking everything, giving everything, to help each other live in happiness all the days of our lives." Leah gathers up fellow New Yorker Esther, now a cosmetics millionaire; Paris nightclub owner Ariana; and Polish political activist Maria to help find the kidnap victims. Ragen weaves in deeper, more serious undertones than the thriller plot suggests, touching on the stubborn pride and the serious purpose that keeps Israelis fighting (or, in some cases, not fighting) for their fragile country, "the land that God promised to the Jewish p
Over the course of five terror- and hope-filled days, the ties that bind two generations forge a potent alliance against contemporary evil.. All seems lost until a phone call to her grandmother in America unexpectedly revives a decades-old oath, creating a force that transends time and place, to rescue her loved ones. Confined to bedrest during a difficult pregnancy, she happily awaits the return of her husband and little girl from a ballet recital, only to find that her worst fears have finally been realized. Living in terror-torn Jerusalem, Elise Margulies constantly fears for the safety of her loved ones