EAN: 9780063011472

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A novel of great humanity compassion and astonishing immediacy this inventive and unique debut captures the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank and the irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a collage of narrative voices and different viewpoints centered on a particular set of events. Brave and bold this gorgeously written novel introduces a large cast of characters from various backgrounds in a setting where violence is routine and where survival is defined by boundaries walls and checkpoints that force people to live and love within and across them.Hamid a college student has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers he bumps into Vera a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is distracted by thoughts of a young Jewish girl murdered by a terrorist who infiltrated her settlement. Ori a nineteen-year-old soldier from a nearby settlement is guarding the checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem through which Samar—Hamid's professor—must pass. These multiple strands open this magnificent and haunting novel of present-day Israel and Palestine following each of these diverse characters as they try to protect what they love. Their interwoven stories reveal complicated painful truths about life in this conflicted land steeped in hope love hatred terror and blood on both sides.City of a Thousand Gates brilliantly evokes the universal drives that motivate these individuals to think and act as they do—desires for security for freedom for dignity for the future of one's children for land that each of us no matter who or where we are recognize and share.

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