The Thinking Heart - On Israel and Palestine
Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 112 |
Format | 12,2 x 18,5 x 1,5 cm |
Gewicht | 156 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781787335509 |
Bestell-Nr | 78733550UA |
_Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature_
A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?
International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation:
How could this massacre have happened?
How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens?
And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution?
In eleven essays David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought o n both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who simply want to live in peace.
Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?
Rezension:
The greatest Israeli writer of his generation Telegraph