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Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine while the rest of the world (including the United States) closed its doors.

Innovative novelist Yoram Kaniuk takes us from the scorched earth of midcentury Europe to the arid plains of the Holy Land to the urban bustle of the American Diaspora, compressing the rise and fall of the Jews into the enigmatic character of one Ebenezer Schneerson.

A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam is now the ringleader at an asylum populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred.

Under Anden Verdenskrig tages en jødisk mand til fange, idet han forsøger at flygte over grænsen til Schweiz. Tredive år senere opsøger den jødiske mand, der har overlevet Auschwitz, nu konen til dén bondemand, der for mange år siden pågreb ham og udleverede ham til nazisterne. Gennem deres samtaler oprulles en gribende historie, der blandt andet afslører sandheden om det barn, som bondens kone fødte ni måneder efter flygtningen var blevet pågrebet. En søn, der hele sit liv har søgt efter sin sande identitet.