Powerful tale following four generations of a family's attempts to
escape persecution. (Kirkus UK)
This immensely powerful novel follows four generations of the
Bindel family as they fight for survivial in a hostile world. From
imperial Russia in 1825 they head towards Western Europe, returning
finally to modern Russia - where the persecution of the Jews
continues. The Bindel family are knit by unbreakable bonds of love
and loyalty, bonds which survive conscription into the Tsarist army
in the 1830s, the Odessa pogrom of 1871, emigration to the Welsh
valleys and to Germany, the Nazis, the concentration camps and the
Gulags.
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Mon, 2 Nov 2009 | Review
by: Dudley R.
The book revolves around several generations of the Bindels, a Jewish family in a ghetto near Odessa in Tsarist Russia, their dispersement to Western Europe and the horrors of Nazi Germany, with an eventual return to the Soviet Union and Stalin's gulags.
Rubens the author weaves a riveting read.
Dudley Ristow
Johannesburg
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