{"id":2362,"date":"2009-02-11T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2009-02-10T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:04:11","slug":"armchair-traveler-novels-of-jerusalem-and-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/armchair-traveler-novels-of-jerusalem-and-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Armchair Traveler – Novels of Jerusalem and Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many readers are trying to get context for what’s going on in Jerusalem and Palestine. Novels can give social and cultural insight into ancient (and modern) disputes beyond the strife of war and conflict.<\/p>\n

The Walls of Jericho<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jon Land<\/p>\n

This is a thriller that proves that\u00a0 the stereotypical “strife in the Middle East” can be woven into highly entertaining crime fiction. The first in the series about a pair of detectives (one Israeli and one Palestinian American) who are assigned to work together to catch a serial killer. Danielle Barnea is an Israel Security Agency officer, and works with Ben Kamal to unravel the plot that may threaten the Arab-Israeli peace process.<\/p>\n

The Samaritan’s Secret<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Matt Beynon Rees<\/p>\n

Rees keeps the “military maneuvers in the background and [focusses] on ordinary people struggling to live ordinary lives,” according to the New<\/em> York Times<\/em>. The hero is a Palestinian teacher, who helps with the investigation of\u00a0 the theft of a priceless scroll.<\/p>\n

Damascus Gate<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Robert Stone<\/p>\n

This is a mystery that “transcends its genre” and is a “novel of place, securely grounded in the stones of Jerusalem.” Religious radicals (Christian and Jewish) plan to blow up Mosques in Jerusalem, for their own convoluted reasons. Stone ‘s “meditation on belief”….and “suspense all come together is a stunning finale that satisfies on all levels.” Booklist<\/em><\/p>\n

Martyr’s Crossing<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Amy Wilentz<\/p>\n

An incident at a Jerusalem checkpoint sparks riots and the soldier and young Palestinian mother are reluctantly pulled into the ensuing chaos. The author is the Jerusalem correspondent for the New Yorker<\/em> and is “masterful at turning the Israeli\/Palestinian predicament like a prism to expose multifaceted viewpoints, leaving the reader with insight into the politics and an overwhelming empathetic vision of the human pain that is part of daily living in this region of the world,” according to Booklist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many readers are trying to get context for what’s going on in Jerusalem and Palestine. Novels can give social and cultural insight into ancient (and modern) disputes beyond the strife of war and conflict. The Walls of Jericho by Jon Land This is a thriller that proves that\u00a0 the stereotypical[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[447,445,316,449,450,448,451,446,183,444],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-christianity","tag-crime-fiction","tag-holy-land","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-judaism","tag-pakistan","tag-palestine","tag-religion","tag-thriller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-C6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}