Name: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (in English)
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Author: Thrall, Nathan
ISBN: 9781250854971

portada A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nathan Thrall

Publisher

Metropolitan Books

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250854971

Synopsis "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (in English)"

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. 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.

Nathan Thrall

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Periodista estadounidense residente en Jerusalén, ha publicado artículos y reportajes en medios como The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, London Review of Books y The New York Review of Books. Ha formado parte durante una década del International Crisis Group como analista jefe del Programa para Oriente Medio y el norte de África, y ha sido profesor en el Bard College. Ganó el Premio Pulitzer de No ficción general en 2024 por su libro A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.

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