Wilson Jonathan - The Red Balcony - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Based on actual events a gripping novel of sex love history and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandatory Palestine by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair" The story of what is arguably Israel's foundational murder trial a tale of multiple identities and loyalties." Joshua Cohen Pulitzer - Prize - winning author of The Netanyahus Pleases on several levels: as an adventure tale a star - crossed romance and a detailed period piece. The Wall Street Journal It's 1933, and Ivor Castle Oxford - educated and Jewish arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitler's Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed. While preparing for the trial Ivor an innocent to the politics of the case falls into bed and deeply in love with Tsiona a free - spirited artist who happened to sketch the accused men in a Jerusalem caf on the night of the murder and may be a key witness. As Ivor learns the hard way about the violence simmering just beneath the surface of British colonial rule Jonathan Wilson dazzles with his mastery of the sun - drenched landscape and the subtleties of the warring agendas among the Jews Arabs and British. And as he travels between the crime scene in Tel Aviv and the mazelike streets of Jerusalem between the mounting mysteries surrounding this notorious case and clandestine lovemaking in Tsiona's studio Ivor must discover where his heart lies: whether he cares more for the law or the truth whether he is more an Englishman or a Jew and where and with whom he truly belongs.
Title: The Red Balcony
Author(s): Wilson Jonathan
Publisher: Schocken Books
Barcode: 9780805243697
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 2/21/2023
Category: Religious & Spiritual Fiction