Author:Leon Uris Binding: Hardcover Published: 2000-04-04 ISBN: 0517207982 Availability:
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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time. From the Paperback edition.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
One of Urises better novels.:
Yea it has some cheezines and cliches. But there is nothing in its depiction of the British and Arabs that can be called racist or maliciously written. The fact is, the Arabs as depicted in the book are still the same Arabs today. Orwellian propaganda such as staging fake funerals where the corpse falls off the bier and then gets back on. Lying to themselves, lying to the world. Telling people that the Temples never existed on the Moriah mountain even though previous Wakifs handed out pamphlets that... more info
A story for the millenium:
Consistant with the extremely high quality of all of his work, Exodus is likely the pinnacle for Uris. The story as fiction is compelling to the last sentence. That it is framed in a context of the real events of the times brings unignorable history to the view of readers now three generations later. Dealving into the incredible chemistry that makes the middle east an emotional as well as a physical time bomb, it is not too difficult to separate fact from fiction and in the telling of this story, the... more info
two books stands above others:
Two books stand above others. One is THe pillar of the earth from Ken Follet and the other one is Exodus. Both great historical fiction with characters you can live and dream. I highly recommend.
Birth of the Modern Jewish State:
This is my favorite Leon Uris, unless I just read Armageddon. The story of the birth of Israel is given while telling the story of Ari Ben Cannan, a Jewish soldier who once served in the British Army and an American nurse called Kitty Fremont who meets him while serving Jewish orphans from Europe after World War II. Uris provides a great background to modern Israel and how the Jews who emigrated there in the 19th and 20th centuries took back the land of milk and honey. The brutal struggle for a... more info
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