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A Strange Death - Espionage, Betrayal and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine (Hardcover)
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A Strange Death - Espionage, Betrayal and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine (Hardcover)
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List price R360
Loot Price R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
You Save R72 (20%)
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In his new book Hillel Halkin brings his wonderful storytelling
abilities to another fascinating place and time, the village of
Zichron in Palestine in 1917. What everyone in the village agrees
is that four members of an anti-Ottoman spy ring were betrayed and
subsequently killed, one by her own hand to avoid torture. At the
time it was recounted that four of the women in the village were
each seen laughing and jeering the night of the betrayal, and that
each subsequently died an unnatural death. But was it true? And if
so, what connection was there between the women and the spy ring?
Halkin scours the artifacts of the village, its ruined homes and
ancient residents to piece together the events of nearly 90 years
earlier which to this day are the defining legend of the town.
Against a backdrop of cypress trees and vine-covered mountains,
limestone cliffs and collapsing barns, a hilltop village seemingly
of the Languedoc or Provence nestled among vineyards and olive
trees, Halkin tells a tale not of the Western Mediterranean, full
of blithe romance, but of its Eastern shore. For this is Palestine,
and nothing is quite as it seems. Halkin pursues the story of
espionage and British gold, of betrayal and deception, of
supernatural retribution, of Jews and Arabs living alongside one
another in the first half of the twentieth century. It's a journey
into the past that shows an alternate future that might have been.
It is also, for Halkin, a journey to discover once and for all the
story of his home.
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