![]() “Stewart O’Nan’s City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading – what a beautifully crafted novel.” – Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord With deft strokes, he evokes the tensions and tragedies of Mandate Jerusalem, riven then as now by the fault lines of community and conscience.” “Finely wrought and morally complex, O’Nan’s considerable story-telling powers are masterfully deployed here. That Stack Of Books with Nancy Pearl and Steve Scher – The House of Podcasts: Stewart O’Nan, “City of Secrets,” and the Work of Writing The Authors Among Us: A Conversation with Stewart O’Nan The Washington Times: BOOK REVIEW: ‘City of Secrets’į: Book review: Post-WWII tale explores the ‘City of Secrets’ Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Regent Square author tackles 1946 Jerusalem bombing Washington Independent Review of Books: City of Secrets: A Novel Historical Novel Society: City of Secrets The Kansas City Star: ‘City of Secrets’ is a slow burn noir thriller that works Star Tribune: ‘City of Secrets,’ by Stewart O’Nan Washington Post: A refugee in Israel seeks his own kind of justice in the masterful ‘City of Secrets’ Steamboat Today: ‘City of Secrets’ educates, enlightens Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: ‘City of Secrets’: Stewart O’Nan’s latest is a search for love and justice after the Holocaust ![]() The Seattle Times: ‘City of Secrets’: a labyrinthine plot in post-WWII Palestine The New York Times Book Review: Stewart O’Nan’s New Thriller Is Set in Post-World War II Jerusalemīoston Globe: Noirish thriller of postwar Palestine and Jewish undergroundĬhicago Tribune: Unrest in Jerusalem circa 1946 plots ‘City of Secrets’ by Stewart O’Nan ![]() 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. By the time Brand understands the truth, it’s too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history. ![]() 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. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war-honest, strong, capable of moral choice. 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. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he’s ever loved. 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. In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. ![]() From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War ![]()
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