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City of a Thousand Gates audiobook
- By: Rebecca Sacks
- Narrator: Lameece Issaq
- Category: Cultural Heritage, Fiction
- Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 02, 2021
- Language: English
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City of a Thousand Gates Audiobook Summary
“A stunning first novel…imbued with foreboding at every turn…Through her vibrant characters, Sacks paints a moving and powerful portrait of those who love the region passionately despite its many tensions and dangers.” –Booklist (Starred Review)
“A beautifully written, brave, and incredibly compassionate novel. I couldn’t put it down.” –Etaf Rum
“Sacks deeply humanizes a conflict that dehumanizes on every level.” –Nicole Krauss
Brave and bold, this gorgeously written novel introduces a large cast of characters from various backgrounds in a setting where violence is routine and where survival is defined by boundaries, walls, and checkpoints that force people to live and love within and across them.
Hamid, a college student, has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers, he bumps into Vera, a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem, a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital, Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido, a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is distracted by thoughts of a young Jewish girl murdered by a terrorist who infiltrated her settlement. Ori, a nineteen-year-old soldier from a nearby settlement, is guarding the checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem through which Samar–Hamid’s professor–must pass.
These multiple strands open this magnificent and haunting novel of present-day Israel and Palestine, following each of these diverse characters as they try to protect what they love. Their interwoven stories reveal complicated, painful truths about life in this conflicted land steeped in hope, love, hatred, terror, and blood on both sides.
City of a Thousand Gates brilliantly evokes the universal drives that motivate these individuals to think and act as they do–desires for security, for freedom, for dignity, for the future of one’s children, for land that each of us, no matter who or where we are, recognize and share.
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City of a Thousand Gates Full Details
| Narrator | Lameece Issaq |
| Length | 13 hours 49 minutes |
| Author | Rebecca Sacks |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | February 02, 2021 |
| ISBN | 9780063011502 |
Subjects
The publisher of the City of a Thousand Gates is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Cultural Heritage, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the City of a Thousand Gates is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063011502.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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