A Palestine Affair

In British-occupied Palestine after World War I, Mark Bloomberg, a beleaguered London painter, and Joyce, his American wife, witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew. Joyce, a non-Jew and ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British investigating officer, while Mark seeks solace in the exotic colors and contours of the Middle Eastern landscape. Each of the three has come to Palestine to escape grief, and yet caught in the crosshairs of history they will all be forced to confront the very issues they hoped to leave behind in this swift and sensuous novel of artful concealment and roiling passions."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 07/13/2004
ISBN: 9781400031221
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.59d

Review Citations: New York Times 08/01/2004 pg. 16