A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Thrall, Nathan

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic,...
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Author: Nathan Thrall
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Language: English
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Thrall, Nathan

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

$43.00

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

$43.00
Author: Nathan Thrall
Format: Paperback
Language: 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.

Author: Nathan Thrall
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 08/13/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250854964

About the Author
Nathan Thrall is the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine. His essays, reviews, and reported features have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College. Originally from California, he lives in Jerusalem.

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