Eli's promise

Resource Information

The work Eli's promise represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Eli's promise

Statement of responsibility

Ronald H. Balson

Creator

• Balson, Ronald H

Author

• Balson, Ronald H

Subject

• 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

Genre

• History
• Jewish fiction
• Historical fiction
• 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