Dinner at the Center of the Earth
โ Scribed by Nathan Englander
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges --a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard.
A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence.
From these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined--a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished, violent division between...
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