![]() ![]() In the end Mama and the girls said good-bye at the house and Pappi and Aren drove with Peter to the station in the big black car. Tears streamed down Mama’s face, and Pappi rubbed his eyes. I promise, when I get to America I’ll get all the papers and send money and you’ll come too. You will, you will, his brother said, hugging him. They had decided to say good-bye at the house rather than risk a scene at the train station, but Aren wouldn’t get out of the car. But the way things were going, keeping him could be even worse. But when her eyes met the father’s, she tried to smile in sympathy. She was large, wore a black-and-white bonnet that covered her brow, and was not used to tantrums. Aren’s little hands gripped the seat as he cried, Don’t take the bag, take me instead. When the Quaker lady opened the car door for Peter, his brother Aren jumped inside and wouldn’t get out. Renata and Ruth wiped tears from their eyes. Forgive me, Mama, he whispered, glancing over her shoulder at his little sisters on the steps. Finally, Peter, almost as tall as his mother, embraced her. Mama started to weep, Pappi coaxed her away. He didn’t want more pants, he wanted memories, his father’s wooden pipe carved like a lion’s head: something to hold on to. He wanted photographs, diaries, his favorite books. It was as if the more she gave him, the more of her went with him.īut Peter didn’t want clothes. But Mama stuffed more and more trousers, sweaters, and shirts into his suitcase. Promised Land is at once the gripping tale of a struggling family and an epic about a struggling nation.Īll Peter wanted was a change of clothes. And over the next two decades, as their new homeland faces extraordinary obstacles that could destroy it, the brothers’ intrigues and jealousies threaten to tear their new lives apart. One brother builds Israel, the other protects it.īut they also fall in love with the same woman, Tamara, a lonely Jewish refugee from Cairo. ![]() The brothers reunite in the nascent Jewish state, where Arie becomes a businessman and one of the richest men in Israel while Peter becomes a top Mossad agent heading some of Israel’s most vital espionage operations. But his younger brother Arie and their entire family are sent east to the death camps. The story begins when fourteen-year-old Peter is sent west to America to escape the growing horror of Nazi Germany. Promised Land is the sweeping saga of two brothers and the woman they love, a devastating love triangle set against the tumultuous founding of Israel. Historical novels don’t get much better than Promised Land." -Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cuban Affair Fletcher’s writing is superb and rises to the level of importance that this story demands and deserves. Promised Land is a great sweeping epic, reminiscent of Leon Uris’ Exodus a moving story of triumph and tragedy, new love and historic hate, expertly told by a cast of unforgettable characters. "Martin Fletcher, who headed up NBC TV’s Tel Aviv News Bureau, knows his territory and it shows on every page. ![]()
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