FICTION

City of Secrets

by Stewart O'Nan

Viking. Apr. 2016. 208p. ISBN 9780670785964. $22; ebk. ISBN 9781101608401. F

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Setting his latest novel in post-World War II Jerusalem, master storyteller O'Nan (West of Sunset) focuses on the Jewish underground movement during Israel's fight for independence. Yossi Brand, a Holocaust survivor from Latvia, joins the Haganah and works as a taxi driver, transporting members to increasingly dangerous secret meetings and missions—until he realizes he is in over his head.Read-Alikes Anita Diamant's Day After Night, Martin Fletcher's The List, and Simone Zelitch's Louisa.

Reviewed by Rachel Kamin , Nov 15, 2016

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