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Wall of Dust
Wall of Dust
Wall of Dust
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Readers have called it “breathtaking,” visually dramatic, even “cinematic.” Wall of Dust does what few novels about the Middle East do: it respects each of its characters as a human being, whether Israeli or Arab, Jew or Muslim. All are caught in a situation not of their own making, and no matter what their allegiances, they are still individuals, subject to all the anxiety and doubts that afflict us all.

Aisha, a Palestinian schoolteacher who has lost most of her class in a missile attack, becomes deranged and begins a strange ritual, throwing stones at the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank.

Zev is an Israeli sniper who watches her, wondering what sort of madwoman she is, while sorting out his own feelings of being rejected by his mother as “unclean.”

Idith is an Israeli grandmother who volunteers for Machsom Watch, an organization that monitors Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. Her daughter has emigrated to California. Maybe she should too.

Hussein is a shadowy figure with the Islamic resistance. He is charged with observing Aisha to determine whether she should be stopped or ignored. But he finds it hard to make a decision and wonders why.

Their lives intersect.

“Timely and timeless,” Wall of Dust is a novel of heartbreaking loss, yet also of the persistence of hope.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 4, 2015
ISBN9781928049302
Wall of Dust
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Timothy Niedermann

Timothy Niedermann is a professional editor, who over his career has dealt with a wide variety of subject matter—from sports to public policy, from scholarly articles on law to celebrity biographies. He has also taught writing as a Bass Writing Tutor at Yale University and lecturer in communications at McGill. A native of the state of Connecticut, Niedermann moved to Montreal in 1999. He reviews indie fiction and non-fiction for a prominent reviewing organization and has published in the Montreal Review of Books and the Ottawa Review of Books. Niedermann is a graduate of Kenyon College and attended the University of Freiburg in Germany. He also holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School.

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