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Title Statement | Strangers with the same dream / Alison Pick. |
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Author | Pick, Alison, 1975- |
Publication | Toronto: Knopf Canada,2017. |
Extent of Item | 368 pages ; |
ISBN | 0345810457 9780345810458 |
Other Number | 3167772 |
Summary | Is 1921, and a band of young Jewish pioneers, many escaping violent homelands, have set out to realize a utopian dream--the founding of a kibbutz--on a patch of land that will later become Israel. Writing with a tightly controlled intensity, Alison Pick takes us inside the very different minds of her three key characters--two young unmarried women, one plain and one beautiful, escaping peril in Russia and Europe; and one slightly older man, a group leader who is married with two children--to depict how idealism quickly tumbles into pragmatism, and how the utopian dream is punctured by messy human entanglements. This is also the story of the land itself (present-day Israel and Palestine), revealing with sympathy and terrible irony how the enthusiastic newcomers chose to ignore the subtle but undeniable fact that their valley was already populated, home to a people that the pioneers did not want to see. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Jews--Fiction--History--20th century |
Kibbutzim--Fiction | |
Nineteen twenties--Fiction | |
Jewish refugees--Fiction | |
Utopias--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
By Location | Palestine--Fiction--Emigration and immigration |
Palestine--Fiction--History--20th century | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |