The Covenant

The Covenant
by Naomi Ragen

The Covenant
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Author: Naomi Ragen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-10-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Book Review: A Little Too Far Fetched For Me
Summary: 3 Stars

The covenant was an agreement between four Auschwitz survivors who vowed to tie their lives together should they survive. The husband and great grandaughter of one of these women was kidnapped in Israel by Palestinian terrorists, putting their covenant into action. While the horrors created by terrorists and the absurdities of sympathizing with them were well written, the characters seemed stock and one dimensional.
On a personal note, one of the woman in the covenant was based on Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polilsh woman who saved a dozen Jews by hiding them on the property of a Nazi commandant's home. I was so taken with her story, that I invested in a play written about her, "Irena's Vow" that was brought to Broadway earlier this year. In the introduction Ragen mentioned how she created some of her characters. Nowhere does she credit Ms Opdyke, which was a shame, since unless you knew her story in advance, you had no way of knowing that her character was based upon a real person, and finding out more about her and her heroism, if you were so inclined. If you are interested, she wrote a wonderful memoin, "In My Hands".

Summary of The Covenant

Living in terror-torn Jerusalem, Elise Margulies constantly fears for the safety of her loved ones. Confined to bedrest during a difficult pregnancy, she happily awaits the return of her husband and little girl from a ballet recital, only to find that her worst fears have finally been realized. All seems lost until a phone call to her grandmother in America unexpectedly revives a decades-old oath, creating a force that transends time and place, to rescue her loved ones. Over the course of five terror- and hope-filled days, the ties that bind two generations forge a potent alliance against contemporary evil.

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