Strangers with the Same Dream
From the Man Booker Longlisted author of Far to Go
by Alison Pick
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Pub Date 9 Aug 2018 | Archive Date 13 Nov 2018
Headline | Tinder Press
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Description
From Alison Pick, Booker longlisted author of FAR TO GO comes a suspenseful, dystopian reimagining of the founding of a kibbutz in 1920s Palestine, for readers of WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES, THE HANDMAID'S TALE or THE POWER.
'We came into their valley at dawn'. From three vastly different points of view, Alison Pick relates the story of a group of Jewish pioneers, many escaping violent homelands, who have come together to found a kibbutz on a patch of land that will later become Israel. With tightly controlled intensity, Pick takes us into three very different minds to show us how a utopian dream is punctured by messy human entanglements. Yet this is also the story of the land itself (present day Israel and Palestine), revealing the way the newcomers chose to ignore the fact that their valley was already populated, home to a people that the pioneers did not want to see.
In writing of extraordinary, at times heartbreaking power, Pick has created unforgettable characters, haunted by ghosts and compromised by unbearable secrets. The novel's shocking conclusion is a tour de force, the work of a writer uniquely in control of her craft and with an extraordinary insight into the innermost workings of the human heart.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781472225115 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 384 |
Featured Reviews
Lucille G, Reviewer
A most moving novel that I couldn't put down and yet had to stop to take a breath every so often. Alison Pick's subject in her latest novel is about the early Jewish pioneers who left the Russian pogroms behind to fulfil Herzl's Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland in the 1920s.
It is told from the point of view of three characters helping to build a kibbutz with their bare hands from lands bought from the Arabs who nevertheless, understandably, don't want to move. Each character is memorably portrayed: Ida, a young woman who brings with her a pair of candlesticks from home given by her mother after her father's brutal killing but in her effort to keep them Ida unwittingly causes a tragedy; David, some years older than the other new settlers, has already alienated the Arabs and been forced with his wife and daughter to move to set up this new community; Hannah, David's wife, left her parents behind when they moved and cannot align the socialist beliefs of the kibbutz community with her feelings for her family, in particular her young daughter, Ruth. All are overseen by someone who, from the beginning, we know is dead but who played a pivotal role in the story.
The minor characters are also brilliantly drawn and the story is most timely. The history of the founding state of Israel is such an emotive subject but Strangers With The Same Dream illustrates how difficult that dream has been to achieve. These early pioneers must be now turning in their graves. I cannot do justice to this book but will be recommending to everyone I know. Thank you to NetGalley and Tinder Books for the opportunity to read and review it.
