A Road From Damascus
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback
Book Blurb
As Much a Political Docudrama as a Novel
A Road from Damascus ventures behind daily news of the Middle East—images of killings, assassinations, bombings and faltering peace talks—to tell the story of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians caught up in the Middle East quagmire.
The story of a Palestinian family and an Israeli family driven apart by the Arab-Israeli conflict emerges as British spy Dickie Jones attempts to reverse his dwindling career fortunes by exploiting his daughter's friendship with an Australian archaeologist and photojournalist, The Australian's friendship with a Palestinian businessman reveals the saga of the two families, who for decades had been friends and neighbours in Jerusalem up to the year before modern Israel was founded.
After more than forty years apart, the separate ways of the families cross briefly and tragically. The encounter focuses attention on the elusiveness of truth in the Middle East.
Despite the undoubted tragedy of the Arab-Israeli dispute, the novel captures the humour, irony and fatalism of the area and its people, whose resilience belies the seriousness of the situation.
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback
Book Blurb
As Much a Political Docudrama as a Novel
A Road from Damascus ventures behind daily news of the Middle East—images of killings, assassinations, bombings and faltering peace talks—to tell the story of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians caught up in the Middle East quagmire.
The story of a Palestinian family and an Israeli family driven apart by the Arab-Israeli conflict emerges as British spy Dickie Jones attempts to reverse his dwindling career fortunes by exploiting his daughter's friendship with an Australian archaeologist and photojournalist, The Australian's friendship with a Palestinian businessman reveals the saga of the two families, who for decades had been friends and neighbours in Jerusalem up to the year before modern Israel was founded.
After more than forty years apart, the separate ways of the families cross briefly and tragically. The encounter focuses attention on the elusiveness of truth in the Middle East.
Despite the undoubted tragedy of the Arab-Israeli dispute, the novel captures the humour, irony and fatalism of the area and its people, whose resilience belies the seriousness of the situation.
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback
Book Blurb
As Much a Political Docudrama as a Novel
A Road from Damascus ventures behind daily news of the Middle East—images of killings, assassinations, bombings and faltering peace talks—to tell the story of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians caught up in the Middle East quagmire.
The story of a Palestinian family and an Israeli family driven apart by the Arab-Israeli conflict emerges as British spy Dickie Jones attempts to reverse his dwindling career fortunes by exploiting his daughter's friendship with an Australian archaeologist and photojournalist, The Australian's friendship with a Palestinian businessman reveals the saga of the two families, who for decades had been friends and neighbours in Jerusalem up to the year before modern Israel was founded.
After more than forty years apart, the separate ways of the families cross briefly and tragically. The encounter focuses attention on the elusiveness of truth in the Middle East.
Despite the undoubted tragedy of the Arab-Israeli dispute, the novel captures the humour, irony and fatalism of the area and its people, whose resilience belies the seriousness of the situation.
