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A review by david611
Mitla Pass by Leon Uris
3.0
I found this to be an okay read (2-stars). However, certain parts of the story were indeed interesting (and that is why the extra star):
- where life for the Jews is described in a shtetl in the 'Pale' during the Czarist regime in the late 19th century in Russia, along with what was it like for a Jew to travel outside of the 'Pale' back in those times. (The "Pale of Settlement " was a western region of Imperial Russia with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917, in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden. -SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement )
- life for the Jews in the first quarter of the 20th century in America.
It took me a quarter of the pages to read to gain a decent amount of interest to continue reading the book. Until then, although it was not boring, it was not allowing me to hold on to the story, and I was just awaiting for 'something' to happen. Eventually it did! The book had been on my to-read list since years now, and that way I was a bit disappointed with this one. This was the fifth Leon Uris title that I read, and no other had been so less interesting before.
The protagonist is a Jewish writer who wants to write a book based on the accounts of the war during the Suez War of 1956, in which he is posted along with the battalion to the Mitla Pass, a snaky pass in the Sinai of Egypt. The overall focus in the book is however not about this campaign. Most of the book is about the story of the protagonist himself, his past, and of his families from about three generations ago.
A drama, which I guess, some readers may like some may not, depending upon what the reader is looking for.
- where life for the Jews is described in a shtetl in the 'Pale' during the Czarist regime in the late 19th century in Russia, along with what was it like for a Jew to travel outside of the 'Pale' back in those times. (The "Pale of Settlement " was a western region of Imperial Russia with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917, in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden. -SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement )
- life for the Jews in the first quarter of the 20th century in America.
It took me a quarter of the pages to read to gain a decent amount of interest to continue reading the book. Until then, although it was not boring, it was not allowing me to hold on to the story, and I was just awaiting for 'something' to happen. Eventually it did! The book had been on my to-read list since years now, and that way I was a bit disappointed with this one. This was the fifth Leon Uris title that I read, and no other had been so less interesting before.
The protagonist is a Jewish writer who wants to write a book based on the accounts of the war during the Suez War of 1956, in which he is posted along with the battalion to the Mitla Pass, a snaky pass in the Sinai of Egypt. The overall focus in the book is however not about this campaign. Most of the book is about the story of the protagonist himself, his past, and of his families from about three generations ago.
A drama, which I guess, some readers may like some may not, depending upon what the reader is looking for.