Bethlehem: Biography of a Town - Couverture souple

Blincoe, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472128648 ISBN 13 : 9781472128645

Editeur : Constable, 2018

Synopsis

An unforgettable history of the beloved little town at the heart of the world's longest conflict, chronicling times of peace and war over the course of 11,000 years

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nicholas Blincoe lived in in Bethlehem for over twenty years. He is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter and is currently a critic and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Part history, part travelogue and memoir, it reads like an extended love letter to a place on the brink . . . a highly discursive, frequently amusing, often tragic but always accessible history' Guardian

BETHLEHEM IS SO SUFFUSED WITH history and myth that it feels like an unreal city, even to thepeople who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical accounts.Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers.

Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. His portrait of Bethlehem sheds light on one of the world's most intractable political problems, and he maintains that if the long thread winding back to the city's ancient past is severed, the chances of an end to the Palestine-Israel conflict will be lost with it.

'Thorough and entertaining' Standpoint

'Majestic . . . [a] book of many marvellous things' John Lewis-Stempel

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Constable
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472128648
• ISBN 13: 9781472128645
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible