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Between River and Sea
Encounters in Israel and Palestine
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Following A Month by the Sea Meeting the wise, the foolish and the frankly deluded, she gradually knits together apicture of the patchwork that constitutes both sides of the divide Hamas and Fatah,rural and urban, refugee, indigenous inhabitant, Russian, Black Hebrew and Kabbalist toname but a fraction.
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Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in the settlements, and in a refugee camp on the West Bank, she talks with whomever she meets, trying to understand them and their attitudes with her customary curiosity and empathy.
Meeting the wise, the foolish, and the frankly deluded, she gradually knits together a picture of the patchwork that constitutes both sides of the divide—Hamas and Fatah, rural and urban, refugee, indigenous inhabitant, Russian, Black Hebrew, and Kabbalist to name but a fraction.
'Her book is a kind of wake-up call to the world ... The quality of Murphy's sympathy and the sharpness of her mind offer a sort of blueprint for a new way of thinking and feeling about the plight of those who live now in the Gaza Strip.' - Colm Tóibín, The Irish Times
"You could say I'm reluctantly retired from writing books": travel writer Dervla Murphy - The Guardian
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ISBN: 9781780600703
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 September 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Eland Publishing Ltd
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 146.0mm
Height: 221.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 464
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