The Thinking Heart On Israel and Palestine

<p><b>*Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature*</b><br><br><i><b>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><br><br>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:<br><br>How could this massacre have happened?<br>How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens?<br>And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution?<br><br>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.<br><br><b>Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?</b></p>