TY - BOOK T1 - Dinner at the center of the earth A1 - Englander, Nathan LA - English PP - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf YR - 2017 ED - Advance reader's edition. UL - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-99796217613201217 AB - 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 Israelis and Palestinians, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides. Who is right, who is wrong--who is the guard, who is truly the prisoner? A tour de force from one of America's most acclaimed voices in contemporary fiction--Provided by publisher. OP - 250 CN - PS 3555 N424 D56 2017 SN - 9781524732738 (pbk.) KW - Arab-Israeli conflict : Fiction. KW - Prisoners of war : Fiction. ER -