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
