by Herman Wouk · Hodder & Stoughton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340617588
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«The Hope» is the historical novel by Herman Wouk, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback (716 pages, in English).
The action follows four Israeli officers —Zev Barak, Benny Luria, Sam Pasternak and the nicknamed Kishote— and the women in their lives from the War of Independence (1948) to the Six-Day War (1967). Wouk interweaves personal drama, battles and humour in this Israeli epic.
First novel in the The Hope and the Glory series. Originally published in 1993; this paperback edition is from 1994.
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction interested in the modern history of Israel and in the narrative of Herman Wouk.
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish readers. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
