Eli's promise
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Eli's promise
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The work Eli's promise represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Eli's promise
- Statement of responsibility
- Ronald H. Balson
- Subject
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- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Germany -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Holocaust survivors -- Fiction
- Husband and wife -- Fiction
- 1939-1945
- Jewish fiction
- Jewish refugees -- Germany -- Fiction
- Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A 'fixer' in a Polish town during World War II, his betrayal of a Jewish family, and a search for justice 25 years later. Eli's Promise spans three eras--Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. 1939: Eli Rosen lives with his wife Esther and their young son in the Polish town of Lublin, where his family owns a construction company. As a consequence of the Nazi occupation, Eli's company is Aryanized, appropriated and transferred to Maximilian Poleski--an unprincipled profiteer who peddles favors to Lublin's subjugated residents. An uneasy alliance is formed; Poleski will keep the Rosen family safe if Eli will manage the business. Will Poleski honor his promise or will their relationship end in betrayal and tragedy? 1946: Eli resides with his son in a displaced persons camp in Allied-occupied Germany hoping for a visa to America. His wife has been missing since the war. One man is sneaking around the camps selling illegal visas; might he know what has happened to her? 1965: Eli rents a room in Albany Park, Chicago. He is on a mission. With patience, cunning, and relentless focus, he navigates unfamiliar streets and dangerous political backrooms, searching for the truth. Powerful and emotional, Ronald H. Balson's Eli's Promise is a rich, rewarding novel of World War II and a husband's quest for justice
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.A628
- LC item number
- E45 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
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