About the Book: Aliyah: The Last Jew in the Village
An alluringly graphic narration of a little-discussed chapter of Keralas?and the
worlds?history: the migration of the black Jews to the promised land of Israel.
It is a moving tale of the reluctant migrants torn between two loyalties: to
their native soil and to their Jewish identity. Fiction here turns into a site
for raising some of the vital ontological questions of the post-globalized
world: about identity, being, becoming and belonging. A gripping novel that
moves from the past to the future and from strange dreams to stranger reality.
?K Satchidanandan
NEXT TIME IN JERUSALEM?uttered every Passover, these words