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

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內容簡介 高牆內外，以巴宿仇中不可磨滅的人性肖像這起悲劇發生在地球最具爭議、衝突最激烈的地區。幼兒園校外旅行巴士發生車禍，孩童被分散送往耶路撒冷和約旦河西岸的醫院。阿貝德得知噩耗趕到現場，尋找5歲兒子。因他是巴勒斯坦人且參與過政治活動，想從隔離牆的這頭通過軍事檢查站進入耶路撒冷城愈加困難重重。作者薩拉爾透過生動故事與歷史、政治剖析，闡述隔離牆、官僚主義等悲劇根源。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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各界推薦 "I know of no other writing on Israel and Palestine that reaches this depth of perception and understanding... One could read the book as a précis of modern Palestinian history embedded in the personal memories of many individuals, each of them drawn in stark, telling detail. To get to know them even a little is a rare gift, far more useful than the many standard, distanced histories of Palestine."—David Shulman, New York Review of Books"Heartwrenching... with rare political insight."—Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens"Nathan Thrall’s book made me walk a lot. I found myself pacing around between chapters, paragraphs and sometimes even sentences just in order to be able to absorb the brutality, the pathos, the steely tenderness, and the sheer spectacle of the cunning and complex ways in which a state can hammer down a people and yet earn the applause and adulation of the civilized world for its actions.”—Arundhati Roy, Booker Prizewinning author of My Seditious Heart

作者介紹

作者介紹 Nathan ThrallNathan Thrall is the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine. His essays, reviews, and reported features have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College. Originally from California, he lives in Jerusalem.

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一個突發意外，牽動無數家庭的維繫與情感，也寫出巴勒斯坦人民的苦難與無奈