THERE IS NO LAND WITHOUT BLOOD AND I WATER THIS LAND WITH THE BLOOD OF MY MEN. Ruth's family
were in Budapest when the Nazis came. Now Ruth is in Palestine amid the bare hills inland
from Haifa breaking the rocky soil of an unyielding land before it breaks her. With her
comrades her fellow kibbutzniks she will build a better world. There will be green grass
orange trees and pomegranates a land that is their own and no one else's. So they till their
fields dig their wells build their homes and forge a new way of living fiercely proud of
their shared pursuit of a dream. But as one generation begets another the dream unravels
twisted into a dark tapestry of secrets and lies sacrificed for revenge forbidden love and
murder. A sweeping historical epic following four generations of a single family as they
struggle to hold on to their land and each other. ' Tidhar [is] fast emerging as the leader
of a new wave of Israeli literature' Daily Mail ' Adama is an unstoppable masterpiece... If
history is a nightmare we're all trying to wake up from then Adama is a trumpet blast that
rings out the past and into the future' Junot Díaz 'Word by word I was drawn deeper and
deeper into this incredible book - a story of inheritance loss longing and what could have
been. Lavie Tidhar's prose is beautiful his characters lacerating and heartbreaking by turns.
I loved it.' Catriona Ward
