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City of a thousand gates : a novel / Rebecca Sacks.

Sacks, Rebecca, (author.).

Summary:

"Hamid, a college student, has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers, he bumps into Vera, a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem, a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital, Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido, a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is distracted by thoughts of a young Jewish girl murdered by a terrorist who infiltrated her settlement. Ori, a nineteen-year-old soldier from a nearby settlement, is guarding the checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem through which Samar - Hamid's professor - must pass. These multiple strands open this magnificent and haunting novel of present-day Israel and Palestine, following each of these diverse characters as they try to protect what they love. Their interwoven stories reveal complicated, painful truths about life in this conflicted land steeped in hope, love, hatred, terror, and blood on both sides."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063011472 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0063011476 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: x, 384 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Subject: Students > Fiction.
Women journalists > Fiction.
Jews > West Bank > Fiction.
Palestinian Arabs > Fiction.
Land settlement > West Bank > Fiction.
West Bank > Fiction.
Arab-Israeli conflict > Fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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