THE new novel by the best-

selling author of Come Pour The

Wine and Portraits, No Time For Tears

is a sweeping, unforgettable saga

spanning three generations and

three continents, the story of the

passionate and courageous Chavala

Landau, a girl who survived abrupt

tragedy to become prematurely the

matriarch of her family, triumphing

over all the heartbreak that turn-

of-the-century Russia could perpe-

trate, making her way to Palestine

with a pioneering people, then later

to New York and the tumultuous

world of its diamond center.

Through wars, passionate in-

volvements, tragedy and triumph,

Chavala was able at last to give the

gift of longed-for freedom to her

family, to whose survival she dedi-

cated a lifetime.

No Time For Tears is the magnifi-

cent, enthralling new novel awaited

by Cynthia Freeman s millions of

readers.