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    Lilah
    Audiobook7 hours

    Lilah

    Written by Marek Halter

    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage.

    Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife. Yet Lilah does not feel she can marry without the blessing of her brother, Ezra. She and Ezra are close, and Lilah knows her brother well-he does not want his sister to have a husband outside their faith. Ezra is a scholar of the laws of Moses, and Lilah believes it is her brother's destiny to lead the Jewish people back to the Promised Land. While Antinoes pressures her to accept his proposal, Lilah realizes that before she can consider her own happiness, it is her duty to help her brother accomplish the seemingly impossible task that is before him.

    Putting herself in grave danger, and with the help of Antinoes, Lilah wins Ezra an audience with Artaxerxes II, the King of Kings, who grants permission to lead the exiles on their journey back to the Promised Land. After a hazardous trip across the desert, Lilah, Ezra, and the thousands who join them arrive in Jerusalem. But the hardship of rebuilding the Temple takes its toll, and the religious enthusiasm of some turns to extremism. Ezra, listening to the zealots, orders all non-Jewish wives and their children banished from Jerusalem. Lilah, whose love for Antinoes has never wavered, is horrified by this command. She knows she must now choose between her brother and her conscience, which tells her that the time has come to defy him.

    Lilah is a timeless story of one woman's stand against intolerance; it will linger in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 27, 2006
    ISBN9781415935255
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    Lilah
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    Marek Halter

    Marek Halter was born in Poland in 1936. During World War II, he and his parents narrowly escaped from the Warsaw ghetto. After a time in Russia and Uzbekistan, they emigrated to France in 1950. Halter embarked on a career as a painter that led to several international exhibitions. He is also the author of several internationally acclaimed, bestselling historical novels, including Messiah, The Wind of the Khazars, Sarah, Tzipporah, Lilah and the Book of Abraham, which won the Prix du Livre Inter.   

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    3.5/5

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    • 2/5
      Liked the history, the picture of the time period. Did not like the woman written by a male author who didn't have the feel quite right. Or the plot that never came to a climax but just dwindled away in the end.
    • 4/5
      This is not even close to being as good a read as the first two. I got the feeling that Mr Halter was just in hurry to finish writting his trialge. Its a shame really.
    • 1/5
      This looked promising, but didn't work out. This belongs in the genre of feminist revision fiction (e.g. Red Tent) Jewish scripture O.T. themes. Lilah is the prophet Ezra's sister who returns with him to rebuild Jerusalem. They fall out over the issue of interacial marriage and she sides with the outcasts. I kept expecting Lilah's lover to appear back in the story.