Jerusalem: City of Mirrors
By (Author) Amos Elon
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
1st May 1991
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
956.9442
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
229g
A portrait of Jerusalem which gives an insight into the kaleidoscopic culture of this magical city. Battle-scarred from 4000 years of violent conflict, the holy city is a sacred symbol of Judaism, Islam and Christianity and its religious wars of today reflect those of the past.
Amos Elon has spent most of his adult life in Jerusalem. A frequent essayist, lecturer and critic who is well known for his articles in the New Yorker and New York Review of Books, he is the author of the bestseller The Israelis: Founders and Sons, Flight into Egypt, Herzl: A Biography and Jerusalem: City of Mirrors (also published by Flamingo).