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Exodus (Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Leon Uris
Publisher: Wings
Category: Book
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Rating:  160 reviews
Sales Rank: 90069
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2000
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.7
ISBN: 0517207982
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780517207987
ASIN: 0517207982
Publication Date: April 4, 2000
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Product Description
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event.Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power.Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
From the Paperback edition.
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 One of Urises better novels. November 25, 2008
Yea it has some cheezines and cliches. But there is nothing in its depiction of the British and Arabs that can be called racist or maliciously written.
The fact is, the Arabs as depicted in the book are still the same Arabs today. Orwellian propaganda such as staging fake funerals where the corpse falls off the bier and then gets back on. Lying to themselves, lying to the world. Telling people that the Temples never existed on the Moriah mountain even though previous Wakifs handed out pamphlets that said the Temples had been built on that very site.
The British molly coddling of the Arabs even though the Arabs had sided with the Germans against the allies. Then their rewarded decades later with Subway bombings.
Tell me what the difference between the Fedayeen of the post mandate era, that Uris talks about and todays suicide bombers.
A story for the millenium November 11, 2008
Consistant with the extremely high quality of all of his work, Exodus is likely the pinnacle for Uris. The story as fiction is compelling to the last sentence. That it is framed in a context of the real events of the times brings unignorable history to the view of readers now three generations later.
Dealving into the incredible chemistry that makes the middle east an emotional as well as a physical time bomb, it is not too difficult to separate fact from fiction and in the telling of this story, the two do not conflict. The story is true, only the names were changed. This is a story for the ages; a struggle of unbelievable strength and courage.
This is one of the few books i know i will read again, and perhaps again.
two books stands above others July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Two books stand above others. One is THe pillar of the earth from Ken Follet and the other one is Exodus. Both great historical fiction with characters you can live and dream. I highly recommend.
Birth of the Modern Jewish State May 9, 2008
This is my favorite Leon Uris, unless I just read Armageddon. The story of the birth of Israel is given while telling the story of Ari Ben Cannan, a Jewish soldier who once served in the British Army and an American nurse called Kitty Fremont who meets him while serving Jewish orphans from Europe after World War II.
Uris provides a great background to modern Israel and how the Jews who emigrated there in the 19th and 20th centuries took back the land of milk and honey.
The brutal struggle for a Jewish homeland is bitter sweet, telling of the horrors the Jews endured both during World War II and their war of independence.
As always, Uris's characters are flawed, but likeable even more because they are. This is a beautiful story and one that is important today because Israel is still fighting for its right to exist and the Palestinians do not have the homeland they were promised as part of the UN mandate as well.
Rebirth of a nation April 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the same manner that Herman Wouk's "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" took us through the vast event that was WWII, as seen through the eyes of a family of beloved fictional characters -- so does Leon Uris' "Exodus" carry us through the labor pains and birth of the modern State of Israel, as told through the lives of a family of fictional figures in that resurrected nation.
The story is huge in scope and Uris covers a lot of territory. He takes us from the Jewish displaced persons camps of post-war Europe, through the Zionist immigration into Palestine (much of it illegal) under the British mandate, then through the rebuilding of the land and the growing skirmishes leading to all out war for survival as the British withdrew (as prescribed by the UN) and the State of Israel was birthed - and immediately and overwhelmingly attacked by the surrounding Arab nations. Miraculously, Israel overcame their attackers, survived, and even thrived.
As best I can judge from the comparison to other sources, the historical sequence of events as described by Uris is accurate. The information is highly educational. More subjectively, Uris was Jewish and writes from a Zionist perspective. He depicts the Hebrews as noble, resourceful and courageous. Generally, the Arab elements are portrayed as cruel, deceptive, cowardly, and not given to playing by the rules. The British are painted as anti-Semites. I'll leave it to the reader to root out the truth of the matter. (If there is an epic novel championing the opposing viewpoint, I am as yet unaware of it).
Uris does not neglect the spiritual aspect and the acknowledgemant of the supernatural provisional and protective hand of God . . . the God of the Hebrews. Uris employs this sometimes by intimation and sometimes very directly.
The author did masterful research and presentation relating to the historical facts. However (at least in this early novel), his character development and continuity, and dialogue, is not on par with other 20th century master novelists (Herman Wouk again for comparison). Some chacterizations are overstated, others are fluid and changing, some are borderline silly. Also, Uris could have given us a little better peek at the personalities, quirks, foibles, etc. of the historical political and military figures of the era (David Ben Gurion is barely mentioned).
Still - this is an epic piece of modern historical fiction. If you deeply love or hate Israel, this is worth the read and highly recommended.
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