Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine

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Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphydescribes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelisand Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in thesettlements and in a refugee camp on the West Bank, she talks with whomever she meets,trying to understand them and their attitudes with her customary curiosity and empathy.

Meeting the wise, the foolish and the frankly deluded, she gradually knits together apicture of the patchwork that constitutes both sides of the divide Hamas and Fatah,rural and urban, refugee, indigenous inhabitant, Russian, Black Hebrew and Kabbalist toname but a fraction.

'Her book is a kind of wake-up call to the world The quality of Murphy's sympathy and thesharpness of her mind offer a sort of blueprint for a new way of thinking and feeling about theplight of those who live now in the Gaza Strip.' Colm Tibn,The Irish Times

"You could say I'm reluctantly retired from writing books": travel writer Dervla MurphyThe Guardian