Exodus

By Leon Uris

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Exodus is a 1958 historical novel by Leon Uris. Centred on the 1947 voyage of a ship carrying Holocaust survivors to British-ruled Palestine, it follows the American nurse Kitty Fremont and the Jewish underground fighter Ari Ben Canaan through the events leading to the founding of the State of Israel.

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