Freedom (Jerusalem Book 1)

Freedom (Jerusalem Book 1)

“Two women, two men. Two countries.<br />But only one future.”<br /><br />It is 1933 and two young women from very different worlds face an uncertain future. Both are in love, but both are faced with an impossible choice.<br /><br />Marie Helder is a butcher’s daughter in a little town in Bavaria, as Germany begins its love affair with Hitler and National Socialism. She has a schoolgirl crush on a boy in her class. His family is rich, well respected - and Jewish.<br /><br />Far away in Palestine, the centuries-old rhythms of sleepy Rab’allah have been disturbed by the building of a Jewish kibbutz on the swamp in the valley below. The Jews are the future, the twentieth century. The Jews are the enemy. <br /><br />Sarah Landauer does not think of herself as anyone’s enemy - and neither does the young man she loves, Rishou Hass’an.<br /><br />But his father is muktar of the Arab village, and he can see the future sweeping towards them, and it fills him with dread. <br /><br />From the snow-hushed winter streets of Nazi Bavaria, to the burned hills of Palestine, from the Alte Post to the Al-Aqsa, four very different families prepare for the deadly conflicts to come. <br /><br />Should Marie Helder and Sarah Landauer turn on those they love? <br /><br />From the holocaust to the bloody creation of the state of Israel in 1948, romance and terror collide in a novel of ancient hatreds and forbidden loves. <br />