Day After Night : a Novel
The Washington Post – Wendy Smith: Anita Diamant's new novel offers all the satisfactions found in her previous works The Red Tent and The Last Days of Dogtown: rich portraits of female friendship, unflinching acknowledgment of life's cruelty and resolute assertion of hope, enfolded in a strong story line developed in lucid prose. She ups the ante here, chronicling three months in the lives of Jewish refugees interned in Atlit, a British detention center for illegal immigrants to the Palestinian Mandate. Based on an actual event?the rescue of more than 200 detainees from Atlit in October 1945?Day After Night demonstrates the power of fiction to illuminate the souls of people battered by the forces of history.