TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong,Diane
TI  - The wild date palm
SN  - 9781867245162 (paperback)
U1  - A823.3 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Gadigal Country
PB  - HQ Fiction
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Jews, Turkish
KW  - Espionage
KW  - Women spies
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Spy fiction
N1  - Includes book club questions
N2  - During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny. Convinced that her Jewish community in a small outpost of the Ottoman Empire will soon meet a similar fate, she is desperate to save her people. With Turkey and Britain locked in a global conflict, she orchestrates an audacious plan. Enlisting a group of co-conspirators who include her charismatic lover Eli and her impetuous brother Nathan, this young woman forms a clandestine spy ring. Conquering almost insurmountable obstacles, they risk betrayal, torture and death to spy on the Turks and pass on intelligence to the British to help them win the war. This epic story explores the fate of ordinary people whose mission collides with the secret agenda of powerful countries, people ready to risk everything to rescue their communities. But can individuals affect the fate of nations? And when life is at stake, how far will we go to reach the limits of our dreams?
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