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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters—young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe—in this intensely dramatic novel.
Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for “illegal” immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp who survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to hope, the four of them find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country.
Diamant’s triumphant novel is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption that reimagines a singular moment in history with stunning eloquence.
About the Author
Anita Diamant is the bestselling author of the novels The Red Tent, Good Harbor, and The Last Days of Dogtown, as well as the collection of essays, Pitching My Tent. An award-winning journalist whose work has appeared regularly in The Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting, she is the author of six nonfiction guides to contemporary Jewish life. She lives in Massachusetts. Her most recent novel is Day After Night. Visit her website at www.anitadiamant.com.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Moving and addicting,
This review is from: Day After Night (Paperback)
I love the multiple story lines, seeing the different aspects of being a Jew during the war is very refreshing. It's nice to hear more about life after the war, I hadn't known how much more suffering the Jews went through trying to get to Palestine. I have fallen in love with each of the women and the pasts they will forever struggle with.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Painful But True,
By M. Spencer-benson "Purple Wisdom" (Chemainus, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Day After Night: A Novel (Hardcover)
This narrative piece follows fictional Jewish women through German Prison Camps to their ultimate destiny and release. It is a painful read. Although fictional, truth shouts from every page. Not for the faint of heart but for those who have open hearts to embrace all women who suffered for being who God made them at a time when their own ethnicity betrays them.
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4.1 out of 5 stars (99 customer reviews) 95 of 102 people found the following review helpful
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Universal in its Humanity,
By Carol Roberts - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Day After Night: A Novel (Hardcover)
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The year is 1945. European Jews are evacuating their former homelands and heading for the British Mandate of Palestine by foot, by leaky boats, by any way they can find. The British stand at the borders, ready to turn them back. Not to be denied, the "illegal" immigrants find ways around the blockaded roads or have to be rescued from floundering boats. For those caught or rescued, the Atlit detention camp becomes their new home.Anita Diamant examines these double survivors in her new book, Day After Night. She focuses on four women, each from a different country, a different situation, but all intensely avoiding the memories of the past years. The life of the camp and the interactions of the immigrants make a compelling story interwoven with the pasts and the futures of these people determined to make a new life in a land that welcomes them. The tale is straightforward, never melodramatic, and finally satisfying as the survivors struggle to find their way to safety. This is a story set in the distant past but universal in its humanity and a story that can not be told too often. 39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A hopeful testament to the resilience of the human spirit...choose life.,
By Denise Crawford "DC" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Day After Night: A Novel (Hardcover)
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I have spent much of 2009 reading excellent novels that relate different perspectives of the horror that was WW II and the effects of the Holocaust on people from different countries. In Sarah's Key, I read what happened at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in France, in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle), I discovered what happened during the war on an island I'd never heard of, in Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel, I accompanied a family fleeing westward ahead of the advancing Russians, in Those Who Save Us, I read what desperate men and women did in occupied Germany. This novel is another wonderful testament to the strength of the human spirit in the face of unspeakable guilt -- the guilt of being a survivor of the ravages of the Nazis and the Final Solution.This story takes place in Atlit -- the internment camp south of Hafia, Israel, after the war is over when thousands of Jews escaped Europe for their promised land, only to be imprisoned and held by the British military instead of being allowed to join the kibbutzes established there. Four remarkable young women from different backgrounds meet there and attempt to adjust to life and to deal with the consequences of what they did to survive the fates that claimed the lives of their friends and families. I loved the women -- Shayndel, a Polish Zionist with a heroine's reputation; Zorah, the concentration camp survivor who hides the tattoo on her arm; Tedi, a Dutch girl who escaped most of the ravages of war by being hidden; and Leonie, from France, who avoided the roundup due to her looks and her wartime occupation. The experiences that the girls had during the war are revealed in vignettes as we get to know each one and her secrets very slowly as they suffer a day to day existence in the camp. The jobs they do, the contacts they have, and the relationships that manage to thrive despite the collective horror are heartwarming and inspiring. Both realistic and desperately hopeful, the girls do whatever they can to find some explanation or reason why they did not perish. Anita Diamant is a superb writer whose prose rings true in every sense. This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. 23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Day After Night...,
By Phyllis Rhodes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Day After Night: A Novel (Hardcover)
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Anita Diamant's Day After Night focuses on four women of different backgrounds in the aftermath of WWII. They are classified as displaced by the British and are housed with hundreds in a camp in Palestine waiting for permission to immigrate to the *new* Israel. Although life at Camp Atlit is relatively safe and clean, the mobility restrictions, barbed wire, and guards are eerie reminders of Nazi concentration camps. The women become friends despite disparate backgrounds: one is a concentration camp survivor, a resistance fighter, a tainted beauty, and an unassuming (blonde, blue-eyed) Jewess. Their back stories were revealed via flashbacks as they passed their time waiting for news and reflecting on their journey thus far; and it is through these memories we learn of their trials, tribulations, and hopes. While their treks were interesting enough, I would have appreciated a deeper dive into their lives.I consider myself a fan of the author and was eagerly awaiting this release. However, I'm disappointed to write that this novel simply did not resonate with me as much as The Red Tent and The Last Days of Dogtown. The writing was sense of place was marginally accomplished -- although I like that it was a slice of history revisited, the book fell short for me in its failure to endear me to the women and move the plot along as it seemed elongated and meandering at times. |
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