EXODUS

By Leon Uris


I can't tell you what is there in this book, because I m not qualified enough to say that. And it will be blasphemy to try to do that. But I will try to tell why you should read this book. So WHY!!!!

• Read this book if you want to know how a person feels if thrown out of his home for 3000 years.

• Read this book if you want to know how a person feels when treated as a secondary citizen for 3000 years.

• Read this book if you want to know how a person can still love God when God shows the utmost brutality towards him.

• Read this book if you want to know what is Ghetto.

• Read this book if you want to know how a person feels, when he knows his whole family is marked with most brutal death.

• Read this book if you want to know how it feels, when a person contributes in the low level work of the actual execution of his whole community.

• Read this book if you want to know how it feels, when everywhere you see but only one that is enemy.

• Read this book if you want to know, what patriotism is.

• Read this book if you want to know how it feels, to be in a Concentration camp.

• Read this book if you want to know how it feels, when your new born baby is snatched from you to be thrown in concentration camp.

• Read this book if you want to know what is ISRAEL all about.

• Read this book if you want to know why there is constant war in GULF.

• Read this book if you want to know how Judaism gave birth to two of the most followed religions of the world.

• Read this book if you want to know what impact Holy Wars is having on today’s political landscape

• Read this book if you want to know, that why everybody says “Its good to die for your country”, while Israeli’s says “It’s good to have country to die for”.

• Read this book if you want to understand, how a teenager is trained to become a soldier for the survival.

• Read this book if you want to understand, what despair is.

• Read this book if you want to understand, what faith is.

• Read this book if you want to understand, what courage is.

While reading this book I cried for hours. And it is one of the only three books I have wept while reading. One is Lajja, you can see its review in this blog and the second one is this and wait for the third one. What I can say about this book is that it’s a matter of experience rather than narration.