Jerusalem

Resumen del libro

The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? Drawing on new archives and a lifetime's study, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women - kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores - who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem.

From King David to the twenty-first century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice: in heaven and on earth.

Biografía del autor

Simon Sebag Montefiore estudió Historia en el Gonville x{0026}amp; Caius College de Cambridge. Durante la década de 1990 viajó por toda la antigua Unión Soviética, especialmente por el Cáucaso, Ucrania, Asia central y escribió sobre Rusia para el Sunday Times, el New York Times y el Spectator, entre otros periódicos. Ha presentado documentales para la televisión y ha escrito dos novelas, así como algunos ensayos, entre los que destacan Kingx{0026} x02019;s Parade (1991) y Prince of Princes: the Life of Potemkin (2000), nominado a premios de biografía Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper y Marsh. En Crítica ha publicado Llamadme Stalin (2007), La corte del zar rojo (2004), Titanes de la historia (2012) y Jerusalén. La biografía (2011).