Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2000, this novel, set in Palestine in 1946, is about a young Jewish woman from England with romantic ideals about the Israeli state in the making. After tasting life in a kibbutz, she goes to the Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv where she falls in love with Johnny who, she discovers, plays more than a peripheral role in 'persuading' the British to leave.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 8 April 2001 ) |
