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Day After Night (2009)

by Anita Diamant(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0743299841 (ISBN13: 9780743299848)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Scribner Book Company

review 1: Day after Night is set in 1945 at an internment camp in which the British imprison undocumented immigrants to Israel. The novel focuses on four young Jewish women who survived the war in Europe. Their stories include a camp survivor, a resister, a prostitute and a daughter hidden by her parents with a farmer and his wife who is routinely abused by her benefactors. Each are now orphans, having lost their entire families in the Holocaust. The novel traces their experiences during the war. Their grueling trip to Israel, filled with the promise of a new life. And the horror of arriving on the shores of Israel to be swept up by the British and put in a camp, Atilit, completely enclosed by barbed wire with various attributes that are reminiscent of the concentration camps ... moreof Europe. The story leads up to their ultimate escape from the prison camp and relocation to various Kibbutzs. The characters are fictional but the story is based on real events.I liked the book because it introduces the reader to the period between the end of the war and the establishment of the Israel state in 1949, when Palestine (as it was called then) was still under the mandate of the UK. I personally was unaware of the continued brutal treatment of the Jews by the British government post-war. The reader also gets a view into the relationships between the British, the Zionist colonies, the Jewish freedom fighters and the poor individuals that get caught in between.
review 2: I have read all of Anita Diamant's other novels, and although I liked this book, it was my least favorite. The main characters were not fleshed out enough and the minor characters were impossible to keep straight. They seemed to serve very little purpose once they were introduced. Setting a novel in an internment camp for Holocaust survivors was a good idea; it highlighted yet another layer of hardship European refugees had to endure before they could begin new lives. But a compelling setting was not enough to make this book really resonate with me... less

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