From the excellent website Publishing Perpectives:
"The Red Tent" Meets "Exodus"
"The Red Tent" Meets "Exodus"
By Erin L. Cox
NEW YORK: Bestselling author Anita Diamant spent 48 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list with her novel The Red Tent and later won widespread critical acclaim for her follow-up, The Last Days of Dogtown.
Her late
st novel Day After Night was published earlier this month. It is the fictional account of a group of young women who escaped Nazi Europe to Palestine. There, the British authorities, who enforced the Mandate over the territory, arrested them and sent them to Atlit, a detainee camp for "illegal" immigrants.
st novel Day After Night was published earlier this month. It is the fictional account of a group of young women who escaped Nazi Europe to Palestine. There, the British authorities, who enforced the Mandate over the territory, arrested them and sent them to Atlit, a detainee camp for "illegal" immigrants.Publishing Perspectives sat down with Anita (who began her book tour this week) and asked her some questions about Day After Night and the true story of the breakout at Atlit - a daring military operation headed by Nahum Sarig and the young Yitzhak Rabin, later Israel's Prime Minister, where they broke into the camp and freed the 208 detainees - upon which the story is based. (read on ...)
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