A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Nathan Thrall és periodista. Ha treballat i publicat articles i reportatges a Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Democracy Now!, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, PRI, Reuters, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, London Review of Books i The New York Review of Books, entre dx{0026} x02019;altres. Les seves peces periodístiques han estat traduïdes a més dx{0026} x02019;una dotzena dx{0026} x02019;idiomes. És autor de The only language they understand: Forcing compromise in Israel and Palestine i dx{0026} x02019;Un dia a la vida de lx{0026} x02019;Abed Salama, que ha estat considerat un dels millors llibres del 2023 per The New Yorker, Time, The Economist, The New Republic i Financial Times. Ha treballat durant més dx{0026} x02019;una dècada per a lx{0026} x02019;International Crisis Group, concretament al Programa per a lx{0026} x02019;Orient Mitjà i el Nord dx{0026} x02019;Àfrica, i també ha exercit de professor al Bard College. Està considerat un dels analistes més contundents i lúcids que treballen sobre el conflicte Israel-Palestina. En lx{0026} x02019;actualitat viu a Jerusalem amb la seva família.