00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613201217 Buklod 20191210124658.0 a r |||| u| ta 191210s2017 xx d r |||| u| 9781524732738 (pbk.) (iLib)UPD-00428565607 DLC DCAL rda eng DMLUC PS 3555 N424 D56 2017 Englander, Nathan author. Dinner at the center of the earth Nathan Englander. Advance reader's edition. New York Alfred A. Knopf 2017. 250 pages 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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. KAL-3955, donated by Jowana B. Bueser. Arab-Israeli conflict Fiction. Prisoners of war Fiction. FO UPD DCAL PS 3555 N424 D56 2017 Book