Name: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
SKU: 55840345
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Author: Thrall, Nathan
ISBN: 9781250854964

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nathan Thrall

Publisher

Metropolitan Books

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x13.7x2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250854964

Synopsis "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, 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.

Nathan Thrall

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Nathan Thrall was born in California, USA, in 1978, and currently resides in Jerusalem. He is one of the most influential analysts, writers, and journalists in the study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, recognized for his critical perspective and ability to challenge conventional narratives about the region. Thrall studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned a master's degree in politics at Columbia University. He has been a professor at Bard College and a regular contributor to international media such as The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books.

Thrall worked for a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, covering Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and regional relations. His journalistic and essayistic approach is characterized by documentary rigor, analytical depth, and the willingness to question the most widespread assumptions about the conflict, both in the political and in the social and human spheres.

His most important works are: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (2023), The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (2017) and his most important awards are General Nonfiction Pulitzer Prize (2024) and Finalist and listed in international awards

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