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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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ISBN10: 1250854962
ISBN13: 9781250854964
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: Aug 13 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250854964
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: Aug 13 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.The best account I've read of how the occupation has made life for Palestinians oppressive, hopeless, and nearly unlivable.--David Remnick, The New Yorker Radio Hour Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos--the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every parent's worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed's quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge. In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall--hailed for his severe allergy to conventional wisdom (Time)--offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.
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