A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Name: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
Brand: Metropolitan
SKU: 9781250854964-N
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By Nathan Thrall

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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. "The best account I've read of how the occupation has made life for Palestinians oppressive, hopeless, and nearly unlivable."-David Remnick, The New Yorker Radio Hour 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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 274
Release Date:: 2024-08-13
Publication Date:: 2024-08-13
Publisher:: Metropolitan
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1250854962
ISBN13:: 9781250854964
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 371 g
Height:: 137 cm
Width:: 210 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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