This was a very readable book, and easy/quick to read.The great strength of the writing was to evoke a time and a place. A part of history I know little about (and suspect I'm not alone). I partly mean the birth of the state of Israel but especially the immediate Post War period. It was only thro...
I am moving from the spacious flat I have lived in for 19 years, a corner house very bright and full of windows, a place of flights of stairs and landings and hallways, no room on the same level as another. A quirky flat that no-one but me wanted to buy in 1994, but an awful lot of it, from the y...
The sun had risen on them and had stayed all this time on their faces. Their purpose was to fulfill the ultimate destiny of the human race. He was fifty-five years old and for the first time he understood that nothing bad had ever happened to him. He lived in a house worth a fortune with his wife...
Francis hotel, Friday, June 19, 1992 Leaning forward in an armchair in the living room of his suite and jabbing a finger at the two men standing in front of him, Carlo yelled, “You told me there would be no problems!” Sean, the older of the two men, seemed unruffled by Carlo’s outburst. “The plan...