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Day After Night: A Novel
by Anita Diamant

Published: 2009-09-03
Kindle Edition : 308 pages
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters—young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe—in this ...
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters—young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe—in this intensely dramatic novel.

Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for “illegal” immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp who survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to hope, the four of them find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country.

Diamant’s triumphant novel is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption that reimagines a singular moment in history with stunning eloquence.

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Day After Night
by drinner (see profile) 05/13/15
Well written, insightful into how people could have reacted after concentration camp and experiences of great lost.

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  "Day After Night"by Sarah L. (see profile) 04/23/23

Eye opening story of the way it was for them. The strength to continue on and survive after losing everything. Totally awestruck and captivating throughout the book. Loved it.

 
by Bea S. (see profile) 01/03/19

 
  "Day after Night"by MARILYN K. (see profile) 04/15/16

Maybe we've read just too many WWII books this year, so we may be suffering from overload. The book dragged in places, and the characters were stereotypical. We did not know that Holocaust survivors... (read more)

 
by Dee R. (see profile) 05/13/15

 
  "Day After Night"by May H. (see profile) 02/09/11

After The Red Tent, our group expected much more. There was little flow to the narrative and none of us could care about the protaganists, which, as they represented the surviving women of the holocaust,... (read more)

 
  "Day After Night"by Jeanne H. (see profile) 08/22/10

I will be recommending this powerful book to my book club. Diamant is so skillful at bringing to light the human side of history! It doesn't take long to become totally immersed in the harrowing stories... (read more)

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