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Title: City of Secrets

Author: Stewart ONan

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan comes a timely moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.

In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine by the tens of thousands. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them; taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel.

City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided - like his new identity - by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war - honest, strong, capable of moral choices. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell; reclaims his faith; and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history.

A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.

Members Reviews:

I read this before the very fine review appeared in the New York Times

I read this before the very fine review appeared in the New York Times. The book is a wonderful read and I think it equal to his best work. I recall reading Leon Uris' book Exodus two three times in high school and City of Secrets shares in major part the setting but O'Nan's is the far better book.

Good read.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book which encouraged me to do a little research on the history of Israel under the British Mandate.

Impressive, But

Vivid sense of time and place, believable characters, well crafted dialogue. But ultimately kind of dull. Canât help thinking that Joseph Kanon would have made more of this material.

A Tale of Zionist war against the British in Palestine

A unique perspective on the Jewish resistance to the British occupation of Palestine. Beautifully written.

Five Stars

Stewart O'Nan is one of my favorites and this novel does not disappoint