EAN: 9780241566725

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA - NATHAN THRAL...

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD
PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA TIME  NEW YORKER  FINANCIAL TIMES  ECONOMIST  IRISH TIMES AND NEW
STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West
Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  Financial Times'Brims over
with just the sort of compassion and understanding that is needed at a time like this ... when
facts have become weapons in this seemingly endless conflict  this is a book that speaks with
deep and authentic truth of ordinary lives trapped in the jaws of history' ObserverA gripping 
intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives  loves  enmities  and
histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a
theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem  but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific
accident. His father  Abed  rushes to the chaotic site  only to find Milad has already been
taken away. Abed sets off on a journey to learn Milad's fate  navigating a maze of physical 
emotional  and bureaucratic obstacles he must face as a Palestinian.Interwoven with Abed's
odyssey are the stories of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and pasts unexpectedly
converge: a kindergarten teacher and a mechanic who rescue children from the burning bus  an
Israeli army commander and a Palestinian official who confront the aftermath at the scene of
the crash  a settler paramedic  ultra-Orthodox emergency service workers  and two mothers who
each hope to claim one severely injured boy.A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is a deeply
immersive  stunningly detailed portrait of life in Israel and Palestine  and an illumination of
the reality of one of the most contested places on earth.

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