Full name: Day After Night: A Novel

Author: Anita Diamant Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, War/Military Culture: Israel Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780743299848 9780743299855 0743299841 074329985X

Atlit is a holding camp for illegal immigrants in Israel in 1945. There about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant with infinite compassion and understanding tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans with a band of partisans. Leonie is a Parisian beauty. Tedi is Dutch a strapping blond who wants only to forget. Zorah survived Auschwitz. Haunted by unspeakable memories and too many losses to bear these young women along with a stunning cast of supporting characters who work in or pass through Atlit begin to find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves and discovering a way to live again. Similar books: A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert The List by Martin Fletcher The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard The Thief of Auschwitz by Jon Clinch Exodus by Leon Uris Dawn by Elie Wiesel Margot by Jillian Cantor Wildflowers of Terezin by Robert Elmer A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell Lovely Green Eyes by Arnost Lustig The Wall by John Hersey After the War by Carol Matas All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay City of Thieves by David Benioff Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie