The Flesh and the Soil

About the Book

The novel begins in 1948 and ends some four decades later. Yigal is a warrior, a lover, a winner, and a loser. The dearest of all besides his wife and child was the diary of Esther. This diary makes the book! It is a love story of young people caught up in the struggle of establishing a new nation. The Flesh and the Soil is a saga covering about almost the most crucial wars a country in the course of creation has suffered. The diary will take the reader to a past that scorns burial. It is a warm and a beautiful yet grotesque, whimsical, and intricately interwoven love story like the trunk of a thousand-year-old tree that has its roots hundreds of meters deep into the soil and its leaves and branches lifting their heads up to the sky. It is love for the flesh, love that binds peoples from all over the world, and love for the good earth, which lives long after these people pass away!

About the Author

EMIL MURAD, developed a flair for writing in English since the age of ten. His mother tongue is Arabic. Today he is a teacher and educator, is a graduate of The American College in Baghdad; author of two books in Hebrew, Babylon in the Underground, and My friends, the Kurds; author of Deep into the Soul, published in the U.S.A., and three poetry books in Hebrew and in English; chosen as Poet of the Month, U.S.A., for his poetry books Rose Petals Down the Stream; bearer of the Institute of Bankers Certificate, London; writer of several articles and short stories published in Great Britain, U.S.A., and South Africa; awarded the Editors Choice Award of the National Library of Poetry, U.S.A., for outstanding achievements on poetry; and recently awarded a Honorary Doctor of Literature, English, from the Dean of Marlborough University, Great Britain, for his impressive achievements in the field of English literature, poetry and prose, and for his book QUAGMIRE, published in London.