num_pages: 257
description: Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his work, respected and admired by his colleagues and community, he represents integration at its most successful. He has learned to live with the violence and chaos that plague his city, and on the night of a deadly bombing in a local restaurant, he works tirelessly to help the shocked and shattered patients brought to the emergency room. But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn. His wife's body is found among the dead, with massive injuries, the police coldly announce, typical of those found on the bodies of fundamentalist suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife, Sihem, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Dr. Jaafari is torn between cherished memories of their years together and the inescapable realization that the beautiful, intelligent, thoroughly modern woman he loved had a life far removed from the comfortable, assimilated existence they shared. From the graphic, beautifully rendered description of the bombing that opens the novel to the searing conclusion, The Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and humane, devoid of political bias, hatred, and polemics, it probes deep inside the Muslim world and gives readers a profound understanding of what seems impossible to understand.
language: English
title: The Attack
titlecomplete: The Attack
genres: France, Graphic Novels, Contemporary, Novels, War, Comics, Historical Fiction, Algeria, Israel, Fiction
ratings_count: 10889
places: Tel Aviv
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: CWA International Dagger, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prix des Libraires, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prix Tropiques, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser
category: Kritikerpreis, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prix Gabrielle-d'Estrées
publisher: Nan A. Talese