Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92820 in Books
• Published on: 1970-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Synopsis
The story of the rebirth of the Jewish nation that had dispersed two thousand years before. A novel by Leon Uris, author of "Trinity", "The Haj", "Battle Cry" and "The Angry Hills".

Customer Reviews

Bought on strength of reviews....most disappointed!
After reading the outstanding reviews of this novel posted on Amazon, I decided to try it for myself. I expected to find a masterpiece of modern literature. What I found was pure 'airport' fiction which was not even particularly well written.How on earth this novel can be on the American high school curriculum is beyond me. Although the sentiments expressed are entirely worthy, and the Jewish people are to be admired for their tenacity, bravery and resilience, they deserve better than this.

A reasonably entertaining read, but great literature it ain't!

A literary masterpiece and a haunting tale
I approached Exodus with the utmost scepticism, knowing full well the predisposal of the author to vaunt political beliefs and wax lyrical at the expense of facts. there is no doubt that Uris gets carried away with Zionist propaganda and intense identification and connection with the Jewish people. Yet people have deemed this book nothing BUT propaganda and that is not only untrue, it has missed the point. Exodus is designed to give you a breath of idealism coupled with despair. it paints the extremes of its subject because the author wants an extreme reaction. The result: brave, haunted characters and soul-battering prose that leaves you weary as if you had run a marathon. How could one write about the death-defying struggle of the Jewish people and their desperation for a homeland without conveying something of the stubborn ideology that motivated them? You don't have to agree with Uris, but the tale is true as far as the emotions involved are concerned - and those who think he is simply racist should read his other books, where he tackles the same war from the other side, or 'Trinity' where he fights for the Irish as long and hard as he fights for the Jews in 'Exodus'. Not a book, an experience.

Still crazy after all these years
It is astounding how much loyalty this book can arouse despite its romancing of the conquest of another people. It is well told and in bringing accounts of the Holocaust home, it is good. But it damages its usefulness by appealing to the tunneled-visioned nationalist in romanticizing not the "rebirth" of anything (ancient Israel was not run by atheistic East European Socialists living on kibbutzes), but the conquest of another's homeland without their permission. Still works, however.