- Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday; 1st Edition edition (Jun 17 1958)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385050828
- ISBN-13: 978-0385050821
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15 x 4.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (129 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,220,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel." -- The New York Times
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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Boooring!,
By Kathleen (Seattle, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Exodus (Mass Market Paperback)
Exodus was the most boring book I have ever read! Most likely that is because I am not a history buff and that is exactly what this book had. Page after page of history. I really didn't need to know that much about the birth of Isreal. Anyway, if history is what you like read Exodus! If an interesting story is what you like, find something else to read!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Heroic Account of the Birth Of Israel!,
This review is from: Exodus (Mass Market Paperback)
Int his classic epic of historical fiction, Leon Uris pens his account of Israel's dramatic birth from the time of the first aliyah in the late 19th century through the War for Independence. He introduces heroic characters, dastardly villains and innocent victims. First and foremost, this is the story of the Ben Canaan clan. Heroic, emotionally damaged Ari, the Palmach soldier, his father Barak, one of the fictional founders of the Labor Zionist movement. Barak's brother, known as "Akiva", leader of the outlaw " Macabees", modeled on the real life Irgum movement of Menachem Begin. There is Kitty, the American gentile who falls in love with Ari and ultimately with the struggle for a Jewish homeland, Dov, the young embittered survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and Karen, Danish holocaust survivor who Kitty unofficially adopts. There is Ari's firey redheaded sister Jordana who clashes with Kitty's American idea of what a young woman should be like. and there are others as well. Uris uses the melodrama of the personal story of these characters to show how Israel came to be. It is all here, the escape by Barak and Akiva from their Russian shtetl and their hike (!!!) to the promised land. The horror of the holocaust. And most importantly, the struggle during the post-war mandate period with the British and of course the Arabs. Uris is not the historian that Herman Wouk is. He has a strange tendency in his historical novels to change the names of people and incidents. For example, in real life, the ship known as "Exodus" was forced to cyprus. It is this that roused the world's ire. In the novel, of course, the ship is permitted to dock in Palestine. This confuses two different ships and two different incidents. Why does he use the name "Macabees" instead of the Irgun? Who knows? It's not that important because Exodus is a rousing thrilling novel. FOr those of us who recognize the essential righteousness of Israel's cause, this novel is like chicken soup for the soul. Those who feel differently will not appreciate Uris's clear pro-Israel sentiment. Although Uris presents these characters through a prism of heroism, he does not ignore their flaws or the suffering of the innocent, Arab and Jew. The British are presented as anti-semetic brutes but that's by and large what they were during this awful time. The Arab fighters are presented as blood thirsty. They were not exactly humanitarians. The truth is the truth and haters of Israel are not interested in seeing it. In the Haj, Uris writes an entire novel showing the destruction of the Arabs of Palestine by their fellow Arabs, here he hints at it. This is an exciting book from start to finish and it should be must reading, particularly for Jews of Israel and the disaspora who are too young to remember the early days before 1967 when Israel struggled every day to survive against better armed foes determined to anihilate her. Israel is a country worth saving and Exodus shows why. The book is not perfect history but it is a fabulous novel.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Poignant story of the birth of a nation,
By Karina A. Suarez "Karina A. Fogliani-Ahmed" (Walt Disney World, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Exodus (Mass Market Paperback)
Not a long time ago I heard someone say that we all carry a bit of the Jews inside of us. Maybe it is because of the history the Bible gives us, maybe because we've all experienced rejection and affection in some extreme way or another at some point in our lives. Exodus is the story of the birth of Israel. It is the story of the most ancient of creeds on this earth. It is a story of persecussion, hatred, fear, victory and murder. It is, in fact, the story of the Jewish people, told both from the viewpoint of fact and fiction. The characters in the novel are fictitious, the events are not. It is the story of an Israeli leader by the name of Ari Ben Cannan, and an American nurse - Kitty Fremont - who refuses to be drawn to the "Promised Land" but in the end cannot escape from it because... well, to tell more would be to almost give away part of the novel.To read this book is not only interesting - it is even vital, I should say. It helps us understand a bit more about the philosophies and the rivalries that have plagued the Middle East since the begginings of time. For us westeners (especially the non-jews like me), this way of thinking, of fighting, is unheard of. Holy Wars? Live and die for the future generations without regard for one's own life? Western capitalism will be shocked at the idea. We all know the story of the Jewish people is one of sorrow, but I doubt we even dare to imagine just how deep this sorrow is. Uris' work leads us through as invisible onlookers to a world where there is no tomorrow but only today. His mix of fact and fiction is what really makes this novel gripping. Sometimes it could get a bit confusing when he resorts to just re-telling of historical events; since Uris is above all else a journalist and this reflects in his writing. For people like myself, who were still not around in the fifties, at times like these the story gets too deep, with names and events popping-up everywhere. But as soon as the focus gets changed to the characters again, you will want to get to the end of the book as soon as your eyes allow. "Exodus" is a novel to remember and re-read a few years down the road; and never forget it.
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