Day After Night: A Novel

Anita Diamant

Simon and Schuster, Sep 8, 2009 - Fiction - 294 pages

The bestselling author of Good Harbor and The Last Days of Dogtown returns to the geography of The Red Tent and re-imagines a true event in the aftermath of World War II in an intensely dramatic, profoundly sad new novel. In her most moving and powerful novel ever, Anita Diamant portrays richly imagined female characters in a haunting fictionalization of the post-Holocaust experience. Atlit is a holding camp for "illegal" immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans with a band of partisans. Leonie is a Parisian beauty. Tedi is Dutch, a strapping blond who wants only to forget. Zorah survived Auschwitz. Haunted by unspeakable memories and too many losses to bear, these young women, along with a stunning cast of supporting characters who work in or pass through Atlit, begin to find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience, as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves and discovering a way to live again. Day After Night is a devastatingly beautiful novel, a story only Anita Diamant could tell, and it will make every reader weep.

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Review: Day After Night

User Review  - Andy Oram - Goodreads

Day After Night is a quick read but sets forth a wide range of interesting characters and can be viewed from many angles. The novel takes place in 1945 among Shoah survivors who made it to Israel but ...

Review: Day After Night

User Review  - Pamela - Goodreads

This is Anita Diamant's third novel. I had read “The Red Tent” many years ago. I read “Good Harbor” recently and also attempted “The Lost Days of Dogtown” (but just couldn't get into it). Based on all ...

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 23
• Section 3: 39
• Section 4: 67
• Section 5: 95
• Section 6: 107
• Section 7: 121
• Section 8: 129
• Section 9: 145
• Section 10: 163
• Section 11: 189
• Section 12: 213
• Section 13: 235
• Section 14: 263
• Section 15: 279
• Section 16: 293
• Section 17: 295

About the author

Anita Diamant is the bestselling author of the novels The Red Tent, Good Harbor,  and The Last Days of Dogtown, as well as the collection of essays, Pitching My Tent. An award-winning journalist whose work has appeared regularly in The Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting, she is the author of six nonfiction guides to contemporary Jewish life. She lives in Massachusetts. Her most recent novel is Day After Night. Visit her website at www.anitadiamant.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Day After Night: A Novel
• Author: Anita Diamant
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2009
• ISBN: 0743299841, 9780743299848
• Length: 294 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical