"Stewart O'Nan's City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading
- what a beautifully crafted novel." - Alan Furst, New York Times
bestselling author of Mission to Paris From master storyteller
Stewart O'Nan, author of Henry, Himself and Emily, Alone, a timely
moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem
after the Second World War In 1945, with no homes to return to,
Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine.
Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory
authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them;
taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the
wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel.
From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, author of Emily, Alone and
Henry, Himself, City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he
tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now
driving a taxi provided-like his new identity-by the underground,
he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the
overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone,
haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before
the war-honest, strong, capable of moral choice. He falls in love
with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, reclaims his
faith, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret
missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to
suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. By
the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the
tragedy that ensues changes history. A noirish, deeply felt novel
of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style,
City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray,
and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join
movements beyond our control.
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