{"product_id":"9781787335509","title":"The Thinking Heart : On Israel and Palestine","description":"Author(s): Grossman, David, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 03\/10\/2024, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 112 pages, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: Vintage Publishing, \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: Israel\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 185 x 121 x 15mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 158g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781787335509\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature*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 occupierInternational 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 happenedHow could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizensAnd did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solutionIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51657408414074,"sku":"9781787335509","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781787335509_c8635cfe-ce74-4ba4-9b00-ba0ca218c1d1.jpg?v=1740677287","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781787335509","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}