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A Jerusalem Odyssey
In March of this year, the New York Review of Books published Nathan Thrall's 20,000-word essay, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. A devastating, indelible account of a deadly traffic accident outside Jerusalem, the story serves to peel back the history and tragedy of one of the most contested places on earth. After the essay ran, this happened:
I pray that Thrall's article will remind President Joe Biden of the courageous stance he took against apartheid in South Africa as a senator. Bishop Desmond Tutu
Beautifully written, even as it shares a devastating truth. Michelle Alexander
One of the best pieces I have read on Palestine. J.M Coetzee
These are a fraction of the countless responses to the article. Then, as war erupted in Israel and Palestine, the piece gave readers across the world an essential key to understanding the deeper story behind the headlines. The article was circulated in Congress; Thrall did back-to-back media appearances; and the piece was one of the most downloaded in the NYRB's history.
The story that the book tellsof the collision of a Palestinian school bus with a tractor trailer owned by an Israeli settler, on its way to gather stones in a West Bank quarryrevolves around a singular, heartbreaking event. But it is a story that brings together, over the course of a windy morning, a cast of characters whose interwoven lives make up an intricate tapestry of the modern history of the Holy Land.
Expanding from the NYRB article, this will be Nathan Thrall's first original book, an epic history told through a single narrative, and it is sure to become the touchstone for the subject, the work that no one will be able to ignore.
Nathan Thrall is a writer and leading analyst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. A former staff member of The New York Review of Books, he joined the International Crisis Group in 2010 as senior analyst covering Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times, and his analysis is often featured in print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Financial Times, Time, the BBC, Democracy Now!, NPR, and CNN. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and daughters.
I pray that Thrall's article will remind President Joe Biden of the courageous stance he took against apartheid in South Africa as a senator. Bishop Desmond Tutu
Beautifully written, even as it shares a devastating truth. Michelle Alexander
One of the best pieces I have read on Palestine. J.M Coetzee
These are a fraction of the countless responses to the article. Then, as war erupted in Israel and Palestine, the piece gave readers across the world an essential key to understanding the deeper story behind the headlines. The article was circulated in Congress; Thrall did back-to-back media appearances; and the piece was one of the most downloaded in the NYRB's history.
The story that the book tellsof the collision of a Palestinian school bus with a tractor trailer owned by an Israeli settler, on its way to gather stones in a West Bank quarryrevolves around a singular, heartbreaking event. But it is a story that brings together, over the course of a windy morning, a cast of characters whose interwoven lives make up an intricate tapestry of the modern history of the Holy Land.
Expanding from the NYRB article, this will be Nathan Thrall's first original book, an epic history told through a single narrative, and it is sure to become the touchstone for the subject, the work that no one will be able to ignore.
Nathan Thrall is a writer and leading analyst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. A former staff member of The New York Review of Books, he joined the International Crisis Group in 2010 as senior analyst covering Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times, and his analysis is often featured in print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Financial Times, Time, the BBC, Democracy Now!, NPR, and CNN. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and daughters.
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Published 2023-09-01 by Metroplitan |