Dimensions
164 x 242 x 22mm
'I have a story to tell. And tell it I must. I owe it to my great-grandfather. Avram Wertman. Or "Zeyda" as we called him. It was he who started it, this storytelling. Though it was no story. It was the truth, and he enjoined his son to tell it to his children, and those children to theirs. Down the generations, so that it would never be forgotten . . .'
It is 1947, and in the British Mandate of Palestine the political pressure is rising. Jewish immigrants are arriving from Europe in their thousands, smuggled ashore past the armed patrols on the beach. The Wertman family, like the Jewish community, is divided: Avram is a member of the Irgun, a terrorist group fighting to end occupation; his daughter Hannah works for the Haganah, peacefully campaigning for an Jewish state.
'The Sergeants' Tale' is Bernice Rubens at her best: evocative, thought-provoking and deeply moving.
