Strangers with the same dream
(Adult Book)

A shocking and timely novel whisks us back to 1921 Palestine, when a band of young Jewish pioneers set out to realize a utopian dream: the founding of a kibbutz on a patch of land that will, twenty-five years later, become part of the State of Israel. Writing with tightly controlled intensity, Alison Pick takes us inside the minds of her vastly different characters. This is also the story of the land itself, revealing with compassion and terrible irony how the pioneers chose to ignore the subtle but undeniable fact that their valley was already populated.