Book club book for May 2007. The Arab-Israeli conflict becomes clearer to me, with the identity crises of a husband and wife in Tel Aviv. Images too clearly drawn to read sometimes, of people being blown up and lives being torn apart. This Algerian former police officer now living in France conveys the complexity of identities: Bedouin, Palestinian, across-the-wall Arab, Israeli Arab, Israeli. And all without the new mess our war on Iraq has imposed on this part of the world.
More after our discussion tomorrow night, perhaps. Here are three reviews I read after finishing the moving book.
Janet Maslin's NY Times review
Powell's Books' site with Washington Post review
Electronic Intifada review, Sydney-based author
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