Author : Miri Furstenberg
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983705359
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)
Book Synopsis The Girl from Scorpions Pass by : Miri Furstenberg
Download or read book The Girl from Scorpions Pass written by Miri Furstenberg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the desert at Scorpions Pass, a girl sits by a bullet-riddled bus too frightened to cry. The violated body of her mother lies a few yards away. Her father, the bus driver, sits slumped over the wheel. His blood has mingled with that of twelve dead passengers. She can't see her older brother. In a few hours an army patrol stumbles onto the scene of what the morning newspapers will call The Massacre at Scorpion's Pass. In Israel in 1954 a five year old girl who had witnessed her family and nine others shot or bludgeoned to death was offered sympathy but little else. Her closest relatives swindled her out of a modest inheritance. And this was just the start of her troubles. Miri's story is one or survival, tenacity, boundless optimism and unfolds alongside the history of the State of Israel. Through an abusive marriage, estrangement from her children and an entanglement with organized crime, she obeys the command of a soldier who shielded her with his dying body; "Keep quiet or they'll kill you too!" After fifty years she found the courage to break her silence in "The Girl from Scorpions Pass"