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Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz (Paperback, 2002)

SOPHISTICATED AND SUSPENSEFUL . . . TAUTLY WRITTEN . . . Wilentz kws the world she writes about very well, and her descriptions have a solid specificity that lends authority to her fiction.The New York Times Book Review At a closed Israeli checkpoint, Marina, a Palestinian mother, clutches her ailing boy, desperate for access to Jerusalem and its doctors. When a young Israeli soldier waits too long before deciding to disobey orders, a martyr is born. Thus begins a graceful, painful, illuminating vel of the Middle East. . . . [Wilentz s] prose tugs at the reader. . . . The characters are magnetic. . . . [This] is a very human tale of regrets, revenge, and the elusive nature of absolution.Entertainment Weekly SO PRECISE, SO STARTLING, SO UNFORGETTABLE. . . . These characters are all pawns of history and politics, but Wilentz makes them live.Los Angeles Times MAGNIFICENT . . . Wilentz writes with a prose style reminiscent of The New Yorker s highest ambitions: crystalline, pure, faultlessly communicative. . . . Like the best documentaries, Martyrs Crossing allows us unprecedented access to a little-understood and often misrepresented part of the world.Chicago Tribune A BRILLIANTLY RESEARCHED MEDIDATION ON THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST . . . Martyr s Crossing matches Damascus Gate in the quality of research and the mass of intriguing characters and yet it remains a lean thriller.The New York Observer

Place of Publication
New York
Author Biography
Amy Wilentz won the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for nonfiction and the Whiting Writers Award, and was a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990. She is the author of The Rainy Season and has written for The Nation,The New Republic, and The New York Times. She was the Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker from 1995 to 1997. She lives in New York City with her husband and three sons.
Date of Publication
01/02/2002
Edition Statement
Ballantine Books Ed
Country of Publication
United States

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