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    The Deserter
    The Deserter
    The Deserter
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    The Deserter

    By Peter Bourne

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    Powerful and sensitively told, The Deserter is the debut novel from Peter Bourne, exploring the complexities of family and political tensions within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Lev Dubnow, a middle-aged Jewish doctor, returns to Israel after some years away to attend his father's wake. He is shocked and deeply unsettled by what he finds.

    Taking a trip up through the West Bank, Lev comes face-to-face with the dark, potentially dangerous atmosphere of fear and suspicion that prevails there.

    After witnessing the daily currency of careless humiliation and intimidation, and after becoming involved in a number of incidents, he is eventually moved to voluntarily provoke a confrontation. And it is one which will have devastating, lasting consequences for him.

    From Lev's difficult entry into Israel, his meetings with members of his family – each with a different perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict – through his renewed appraisal of the Jerusalem he once knew, this is a memorable, profound narrative immersed in the complexities of the region.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateOct 18, 2011
    ISBN9780230756915
    The Deserter
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    Peter Bourne

    Peter Bourne spent his early years in the South of England and studied Law at Liverpool University. Recently, he travelled to the Near East, and spent the best part of a year in The Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine/Israel, settling in Jerusalem for several months. Peter currently lives in South London, where he writes and paints. The Deserter is his first novel.

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