Elisha, a Holocaust survivor living in Palestine, joins a paramilitary group and is ordered to execute a British officer. As he waits for dawn, when the execution is to take place, he meditates on his life.
This list covers pages 44–81 in the 2006 Hill and Wang edition, translated from the French by Frances Frenaye.
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