Martyrs' crossing
Subtitle: a novel
By: Amy Wilentz.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Palestinian Americans -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Americans -- Israel -- Fiction; Children -- Death -- Fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; Jerusalem -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An Israeli lieutenant and a Palestinian woman find themselves on opposite sides when rioting breaks out after the lieutenant refuses to let the woman and her sick child through a checkpoint. The child's grandfather, a prominent Palestinian American surgeon, must also make choices as the violence continues.