Martin Fletcher, the former NBC bureau chief in Israel, describes his 409-page novel in three words: “Exodus meets ‘Dallas.’” And indeed it is.
Instead of focusing on contemporary Israel, Fletcher goes back to the years between 1948 and 1967, a period in which the Jewish state more than tripled its population from about 800,000 to 2.7 million.
Promised Land: A Novel of Israel spans the two dangerous decades when Israel, frequently alone on the world stage, confronted extraordinary military, cultural, political, and economic challenges. It was an era that began with Israeli independence and ended with the Six-Day War.
Like many authors of ambitious sweeping historical novels, Fletcher focuses on members of a single family to tell the dramatic story of how Israel absorbed hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly traumatized Holocaust survivors and Sephardic Jews from Muslim countries.
Instead of focusing on contemporary Israel, Fletcher goes back to the years between 1948 and 1967, a period in which the Jewish state more than tripled its population from about 800,000 to 2.7 million.
Promised Land: A Novel of Israel spans the two dangerous decades when Israel, frequently alone on the world stage, confronted extraordinary military, cultural, political, and economic challenges. It was an era that began with Israeli independence and ended with the Six-Day War.
Like many authors of ambitious sweeping historical novels, Fletcher focuses on members of a single family to tell the dramatic story of how Israel absorbed hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly traumatized Holocaust survivors and Sephardic Jews from Muslim countries.
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