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A Palestine Affair
Jonathan Wilson.
Pantheon Books: 2003 (hardcover). ISBN: 0375422099.
272 pages.
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Great love story, great historical novel, and great wonder of literary imagination, paced fast and forceful at a thriller/mystery velocity. The scene is Palestine, 1924, then as now rumbling with Arab-Israeli violence and resentment. But also, at this particular time, various European ex-pats are scuttling around the streets, the edgy, nervous, lost survivors of the Great War that ended less than a decade before.
On one dark summer's night, once-great London painter Mark Bloomberg and his energetic young American wife Joyce wake up to discover a prominent Orthodox Jew being murdered in their garden. It's up to British policeman Robert Kirsch to investigate the case, but he soon finds himself even more interested in investigating Joyce, who seems to return his passionate feelings. Neither Kirsch nor Joyce's husband know that her true passion lies elsewhere. You should definitely include this novel on your reading list for 2004-it's the kind of sexually-politically-philosophically-charged (yet concise) tour-de-force that simply begs for the book group love needed to release a sleeper hit. Paperback edition due from Anchor Books in July 2004.
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