*Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature*<\/b><\/p>\n
A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person’s soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation:<\/p>\n
How could this massacre have happened?
How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens?
And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution?<\/p>\n
In eleven essays David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who simply want to live in peace.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person’s soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? International Booker Prize winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation: How could this massacre have happened? How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens? And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution? In eleven essays David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[249],"product_tag":[601,333,960,675,17109,7289,352],"class_list":{"0":"post-105646","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-politics","6":"product_tag-geopolitics","7":"product_tag-literary-essays","8":"product_tag-middle-eastern-history","9":"product_tag-military-history-post-ww2-conflicts","10":"product_tag-nationalism","11":"product_tag-peace-studies-conflict-resolution","12":"product_tag-political-control-freedoms","13":"pa_book_author-grossman-david","14":"pa_cover-hardback","15":"pa_dewey-956-054-edition23","16":"pa_imprint-jonathan-cape","17":"pa_language-english","18":"pa_pages-8229","19":"pa_publisher-jonathan-cape","20":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","22":"first","23":"onbackorder","24":"taxable","25":"shipping-taxable","26":"purchasable","27":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n