The Gordian Knot: Five Generations Entangled in Mystery

by Yair Weinstock and M. Arbel

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899062857
• ISBN13: 9780899062853
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Shaar Press
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Better than expected

This book was slow to start, but it got exciting as I read along. I felt that the book has a universal theme that everyone will learn from as well as enjoying the contents. This book takes you through five generations of a family over the span of 100 years. The Gordian Knot gives you a snapshot into life in the past as well as giving you a view of the current situation in Israel. A must read.

The Gordian Knot

I think the Gordian Knot is an amaizing book which I will certanly read again. It was definatly worth every penny I saved to buy it! It is a very spine chilling book. Also I would like to comment on the excellent vocabulary that is used. The way it is written and the way it suddenly stops and has ... makes you carry on reading it, which is why I finished reading it in about 1 day!! So I think everyone should buy this book, and will be kept busy for a while! AND ENJOY!!Rochel Beenstock (13)

Suspense and mystery with a Jewish twist

I enjoy reading suspense stories by such authors as Ludlum, Greene, Clancy, and Forsyth and have, lately, emersed myself in books about Judaism. This novel is a creative attempt to combine the two in an entertaining way. The characters are interesting and well developed, albeit somewhat unevenly. My only criticism of this book is its ending - it is superficial and not very well thought out. A different ending, e.g., the development of an antidote to foil the plot of the villians, would have been more consistent with the storyline

A great mystery, a riveting novel of suspence and relevation

A story of 5 generations connected by a mysterious and important secret. It is a tale of dedication and treachery, and, above all, a story of the incredible Providence thay watches over the Jewish People and every Jew. David Eliad, the simple 'moshav' farmer (in Israel) whose past life is surrounded by haze and mystery, holds is his hands the ends of the Gordian knot, a bond that ties together many different lands and many different generations. What is the secret of the centuriesold will left by the hidden Kabbalist Avigdor Horowistz? What terrible doom will overtake Horowitz's grandchildren - and the entire Jewish children - if the will isn't discovered? What clue is concealed in the tiny letters written by Roman Speigel? a sadistic Nazi, and who can foil his hideous plan? The Gordian Knot is a novel of breathaking suspence and heartstopping drama. It will rivet the reader from its dramatic and mysterious opening pages right through its action-packed climax. The unravelling of the "Gordian Knot" is a moving experience that you will not forget soon. The Gordian Know written by best selling (in the 'Jewish' market) Yair Weinstock auther of Black Out and The Eye of the Storm. Published by The Shaar Press a division of Artscroll, and generally distributed on the 'Jewish' market. Every house now has a book by Yair Weinstock in the Jewish houses.