Overview:
From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism.Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired and respected member of his community, he has carved a space for himself and his wife, Sihem, at the crossroads of two troubled societies. Jaafari’s world is abruptly shattered when Sihem is killed in a suicide bombing.As evidence mounts that Sihem could have been responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Jaafari begins a tortured search for answers.
Faced with the ultimate betrayal, he must find a way to reconcile his cherished memories of his wife with the growing realization that she may have had another life, one that was entirely removed from the comfortable, modern existence that they shared.
At the beginning of "The Attack," in what will prove to be an exasperating "Twilight Zone" twist, an Arab-Israeli surgeon in Tel Aviv is almost killed in a terrorist bombing. To his astonishment he is told that the suicide bomber was his wife, Sihem. So he sets out to find out why his whole privileged middle-class life with Sihem has turned out to be a lie.
"The Attack" is sufficiently philosophical to have been much admired in France, where the author now lives.
This book is also gripping and dynamic in ways that rivet the reader even when the thinking is didactic and the prose takes a purplish turn.
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Sincerelyours
And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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