A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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Peter Ganim
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Nathan Thrall
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books.
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"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
“It is hard to think of another book that gives such a poignant, deeply human face to the ongoing tragedy of Palestine. Thrall’s evocation of both a terrible crisis and the daily humiliations of life under occupation is nothing short of heartbreaking.”—Adam Hochschild, National Book Award finalist and author of American Midnight
“This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears."—James Rebanks, New York Times bestselling author of Pastoral Song
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Sad but fascinating story. Very well written and performed.
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Great but
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One story of an accident that encapsulates so much of the trauma of daily life due to the Palestinian Israeli conflict
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Our Ignorance Revealed At Last!
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Heart and gut wrenching!
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The inhumane treatment of Palestinians
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It reminded me of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, Say Nothing. I found many parallels with the Troubles in Ireland. Both books explore what it is like to live in high conflict areas such as Ireland and the Mideast, where issues of identity, personhood and one’s humanity are challenged on a daily basis.
Compromise and lasting solutions after so many years of conflict is hard to come by.
Time doesn’t make it easier.
That said, I didn’t give it five stars. Two reasons, from Nathan Thrall’s point of view, not one Israeli ever did anything of value or admirable. That seems too black and white and simplistic for a sophisticated book
Secondly, in listening to an audio book where most of the names are not familiar to western ears, , it was sometimes hard to follow the story. A PDR glossary attached to the audio book would have been a big help. Some of the names sound very similar, making it hard to follow the story at different time.
A tough read, a revealing book
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Heartbreaking
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Touching and revealing
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Eyeopening Perspective
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