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Martyrs' Crossing: A Novel
Martyrs' Crossing: A Novel
Martyrs' Crossing: A Novel
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Martyrs' Crossing: A Novel

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From the acclaimed author of the prize-winning The Rainy Season, Martyrs’ Crossing tells a poignant story of the ambiguities of war—of love, fear, divided loyalties, ruined friendships, and personal sacrifice—set in the turbulence of Israel and the West Bank.
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Release dateAug 4, 2015
ISBN9781501134876
Martyrs' Crossing: A Novel
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Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz is the author of The Rainy Season, Martyrs’ Crossing, and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen. She has won the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. She writes for The New Yorker and The Nation and teaches in the Literary Journalism program at UC Irvine.

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    A story rich in human emotion set in contemporary Ramallah & Jerusalem. A Palestinian American who returned to Palestine to marry a Hamas activist watches her son die at a checkpoint as she waits to get clearance to get through to take him to a hospital in Jerusalem. The story of the political & emotional fallout of that tragic event is told from the viewpoint of the mother, her father (a cardiac specialist at Harvard who's also an activist on behalf of Palestinian rights), & the soldier who tried to get clearance for the mother & child & who is held responsible by the Palestinians for the child's death, and, to a lesser extent, the child's father and a PLO leader (& childhood friend of the child's grandfather, though they've become political enemies in recent years). This rich book is highly sensitive to the political & emotional complexities of the situation--a book I won't soon forget.
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    Wonderfully ballanced, unrelenting look at the conflict between Palestine and Israel on a personal level.

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