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The Way To The Spring
The Way to the Spring
Subtitle:
Life and Death in Palestine
Book Category:
Political Science > World > Middle Eastern
Author:
Ehrenreich, Ben
ISBN 13:
9780143110576
Price:
USD $18.00
Publication Year:
2017

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Book Description

For the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been spending stretches of time living with several Palestinian families in the West Bank. In cities and small villages alike, a group of unforgettable characters share their lives with him and make their own case for resistance and resilience in the face of life under occupation. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, they are a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine.

Blending political and historical context with deeply human stories, The Way to the Spring makes clear that conditions on the ground are changing--and getting worse, in an accelerating dynamic that should provoke the conscience of us all. In a great act of bravery, empathy and understanding, Ben Ehrenreich, by placing us in the footsteps of ordinary Palestinians and telling their story with surpassing literary power and grace, makes it impossible for us to turn away.