Return to Damascus

The book was written in 1932, after the author’s trip to Palestine. The action takes place during the British mandate and a cruel ethnic struggle. The plot is based on a real fact - the murder of the Jewish writer de Haan.
Arnold Zweig - an outstanding German writer - builds a detective novel here, allowing the reader to figure out which version of the murder will be true.
Politics, interethnic discord, personal relationships, many characters, a wide panorama of the events of that time - and in the center of Yitzhak -Yosef de Vrindt, rabbi, poet and philosopher, man with his passions, dreams, doubts. Why is he striving for Damascus and how will this amazing journey end? ..
Arnold Zweig (1887-1968) - a German writer and public figure, spent the years of the Nazi regime in exile, in Palestine, where he was engaged in journalism, returned to Germany in 1948. His novels about the First World War are widely known ("Dispute about Unter Grisha", "Education near Verden")