Between Two Deserts - Softcover
Jerusalem lies at the end of an old Roman road, a city swathed in light and sorrow. Coming to Jerusalem to fulfill her grandfather’s dying wish, Eve Cavell finds herself poised at the fault line of three worlds—Muslim, Christian and Jewish. Soon she attracts the attention of Mozes Koenig, an elderly author in search of a heroine. Eve, with her lodestar eyes and solitary dance, captivates the old man’s imagination, and together they create an opus to humanity in a city made of stone. With lyricism and allure, Germaine Shames captures a world of compassion amid chaos and peace within war through her characters’ triumphs and calvary. Reviews of Note: “Shames, a former Middle East correspondent, skillfully intertwines the lives of this diverse cast of characters to produce a tightly executed, emotion-filled work.” Publisher’s Weekly “(The novelist) creates the intense atmosphere of an unstable world with grace and a sort of lyric power.” National Public Radio “One might expect the journalist and novelist to approach this story quite differently, but in Between Two Deserts, foreign correspondent Germaine Shames has realized a combination of these crafts, lucidly capturing those immutable qualities that speak to our souls.” Rain Taxi “In Jerusalem where rhetoric and revenge rule, Shames shows us humanity and insight.” Bloomsbury Review
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Borders. Names on a map. I was born a traveler, one for whom the globe could never be big enough. When, in 1987, I fixed my sights on Israel, I had already sojourned on six continents, and considered myself a citizen of the world.
I booked a flight during the early days of the conflict that came to be called the Intifada. Laying aside my Frommer’s and instinct for self-preservation, I became a correspondent for a small news service. My self appointed mission: to cover the peace and coexistence movement so under-reported in the mainstream media.
I moved to Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter, where donkey dung and tear gas canisters lay in sorry heaps among the cobblestones. Daily, I followed the uprising to its flashpoint in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, numbly awaiting the collective eruption of nerves that would trigger the first volley of stones and rubber bullets.
Sometime between the stabbings of old people on Jaffa Road and the demise of the militant rabbi Meir Kahane, I cut my press card to shreds with cuticle scissors. My carefully measured column inches, aptly called "hard news" had failed miserably to capture Jerusalem’s complex moral climate, the myriad questions posed in equal parts by her beauty and her brutality.
Between Two Deserts allowed me to tell a larger story, the intimate dramas that extraordinary circumstance makes of ordinary lives. In its pages, I give voice to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and through their struggles and dreams, make my plea for peace.
I booked a flight during the early days of the conflict that came to be called the Intifada. Laying aside my Frommer’s and instinct for self-preservation, I became a correspondent for a small news service. My self appointed mission: to cover the peace and coexistence movement so under-reported in the mainstream media.
I moved to Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter, where donkey dung and tear gas canisters lay in sorry heaps among the cobblestones. Daily, I followed the uprising to its flashpoint in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, numbly awaiting the collective eruption of nerves that would trigger the first volley of stones and rubber bullets.
Sometime between the stabbings of old people on Jaffa Road and the demise of the militant rabbi Meir Kahane, I cut my press card to shreds with cuticle scissors. My carefully measured column inches, aptly called "hard news" had failed miserably to capture Jerusalem’s complex moral climate, the myriad questions posed in equal parts by her beauty and her brutality.
Between Two Deserts allowed me to tell a larger story, the intimate dramas that extraordinary circumstance makes of ordinary lives. In its pages, I give voice to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and through their struggles and dreams, make my plea for peace.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1507897820
- ISBN 13 9781507897829
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages176
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