Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. Colm Toibin

      

      

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      Source ISBN: 9780008229191

      Ebook Edition © May 2017 ISBN: 9780008229207

      Version: 2017-05-08

      Contents

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

INTRODUCTION: AYELET WALDMAN AND MICHAEL CHABON

THE DOVEKEEPER: GERALDINE BROOKS

ONE’S OWN PEOPLE: JACQUELINE WOODSON

BLOATED TIME AND THE DEATH OF MEANING: ALA HLEHEL

GIANT IN A CAGE: MICHAEL CHABON

THE LAND IN WINTER: MADELEINE THIEN

MR. NICE GUY: RACHEL KUSHNER

SAMI: RAJA SHEHADEH

       OCCUPIED WORDS: LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN

       PRISON VISIT: DAVE EGGERS

       SUMUD: EMILY RABOTEAU

       JOURNEY TO THE WEST BANK: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

       PLAYING FOR PALESTINE: ASSAF GAVRON

       LOVE IN THE TIME OF QALANDIYA: TAIYE SELASI

       IMAGINING JERICHO: COLM TÓIBÍN

       THE END OF REASONS: EIMEAR MCBRIDE

       HIGH PLACES: HARI KUNZRU

       STORYLAND: LORRAINE ADAMS

       THE SEPARATION WALL: HELON HABILA

       A HUNDRED CHILDREN: EVA MENASSE

       VISIBLE, INVISIBLE: TWO WORLDS: ANITA DESAI

       HIP-HOP IS NOT DEAD: POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR

       OCCUPATION’S UNTOLD STORY: FIDA JIRYIS

       AN UNSUITABLE PLACE FOR CLOWNS: ARNON GRUNBERG

       JUSTICE, JUSTICE YOU SHALL PURSUE: AYELET WALDMAN

       TWO STORIES, SO MANY STORIES: COLUM MCCANN

       H2: MAYLIS DE KERANGAL

       AFTERWORD

       FOOTNOTES

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       CONTRIBUTORS

       PERMISSIONS

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       INTRODUCTION

       AYELET WALDMAN AND MICHAEL CHABON

      WE DIDN’T WANT TO EDIT THIS BOOK. WE DIDN’T WANT TO write or even think, in any kind of sustained way, about Israel and Palestine, about the nature and meaning of occupation, about intifadas and settlements, about whose claims were more valid,