Set in contemporary Israel, this powerful novel is narrated in real time by many voices: Sixteen-year-old Thomas, from Berlin, seeking answers to questions about his grandfather, a Nazi officer in World War II. Vera from Odessa, reclaiming her Jewish heritage. Baruch Ben Tov, a Holocaust survivor. Sameh Laham, illegally employed at a diner. His boss. Sameh's friend Omar. A Palestinian doctor in an Israeli hospital. A mother. A soldier.A newscaster . . .Minute by minute, hour by hour, these lives and many others unfold—and then intersect in one violent moment on a highway outside Jerusalem. Each is drastically and irrevocably changed. What do secrets, hopes, dreams, and future plans mean after such a catastrophe? Can what was destroyed be made whole again?
| ISBN: | 9780618691746 |
| Publication date: | 24th July 2006 |
| Author: | Pnina Moed Kass |
| Publisher: | Clarion Books an imprint of HMH Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Genres: |
Adventure Stories |