01567nam a22001697b 450000500170000000800410001702000230005804000140008104100060009508200120010110000220011324500390013525000190017426000410019330000230023450011400025720240919121244.0240919b        sa ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d  a9781250276643qpbk  aRDAcOCLC  2E  aEF BALS  aBalson, Ronald .H  aEli's promisecby Ronald H. Balson  aFirst Edition.  aNew York;bSt. Martin's Press;c2020  a339 pages;c23 cm.  a1939: Eli Rosen lives with his wife Esther and their young son in the Polish town of Lublin, where his family owns a construction company. As a consequence of the Nazi occupation, Eli’s company is Aryanized, appropriated and transferred to Maximilian Poleski—an unprincipled profiteer who peddles favors to Lublin’s subjugated residents. An uneasy alliance is formed; Poleski will keep the Rosen family safe if Eli will manage the business. Will Poleski honor his promise or will their relationship end in betrayal and tragedy?

1946: Eli resides with his son in a displaced persons camp in Allied-occupied Germany hoping for a visa to America. His wife has been missing since the war. One man is sneaking around the camps selling illegal visas; might he know what has happened to her?

1965: Eli rents a room in Albany Park, Chicago. He is on a mission. With patience, cunning, and relentless focus, he navigates unfamiliar streets and dangerous political backrooms, searching for the truth. Powerful and emotional, Ronald H. Balson's Eli's Promise is a rich, rewarding novel of World War II and a husband’s quest for justice.