company may have paid out large sums of money to the Madrid PP.

The name Villar Mir also crops up as a donor in parallel accounts kept by Luis Bárcenas, the former treasurer of the national PP. This larger investigation into unlawful donations and illegal party financing is one of the biggest corruption cases to affect the Spanish conservatives.Yoram Kaniuk, the author of Commander of the Exodus, was born in Tel Aviv in 1930 and took part in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. A painter, journalist, and theater critic, he is best known as a novelist. His books have been translated to great acclaim in twenty languages and have earned him the Bialik Prize, the French Prix de Droits de l’Homme, and the Israeli President’s Prize.

About The Book

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 biography to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the life of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate