The inbetween people
By: Emma McEvoy
Publisher: Permanent Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sag Harbor, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781579623111
Subjects: Conscientious objectors; Palestinian Arabs; Friendship; Arab-Israeli conflict; Fiction
Description: When Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell in a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching July day and the story of Saleem's family, whose loss of their ancestral home in 1948 cast a long shadow over their lives.