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Title: The Inbetween People
Author: Emma McEvoy
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
I am writing this for you Saleem. I am writing about us, about how I loved you, and how I killed you.
As Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell of a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching day in July, and the story of Saleems family, whose loss of their ancestral home in 1948 cast a long shadow over their lives. Avi and Saleem understand about the past: they believe it can be buried, reduced to nothing. But then September 2000 comes and war breaks out - endless, unforgiving, and filled with loss. As the Intifada rips their peoples apart, they learn that war devours everything - even seemingly insignificant, utterly mundane things - and that sometimes, if you do not speak of these things, they are lost to you forever.
Set among the white chalk mountains of Galilee and the hostile terrain of the Negev desert, The Inbetween People is a story of longing that deals with hatred, forgiveness, and the search for redemption.
Emma McEvoy, born in the town of Dalkey in County Dublin in 1973, read history and politics at University College Dublin. She later settled in Israel, where she lived on a kibbutz on the border between Israel and Lebanon. She now lives in West Cork with her husband and son and works as a project manager for Cisco Systems.
Critic Reviews:
Sparingly told and sharply drawn, the story brings forward the desert itself as a kind of character, its smells and storms defining the atmosphere. The novel tackles the complex theme of what the war over the fate of Israel has meant for its inhabitants in moving and highly personal terms. A poetic and painful examination of the legacy of loss in a land with a long history of it. (Booklist)
A first novel that examines personal grief and political grievances in contemporary IsraelAn impressive debut. (Kirkus Reviews)
Emma McEvoy brings a vibrant and original new voice to Irish writing. Turning away from traditional and well trodden literary landscapes, she finds both a narrative and a setting that sparkle with fresh imagination. (David Park, author of The Truth Commissioner)
Members Reviews:
Kibbutz memories
The young Kibbutznik who refuses to do his reserve army duty in the occupied territories.
The Kibbutz wife who runs off with the volunteer
The young couple of different cultural backgrounds that must leave the country to escape their families wrath.
Anyone who did the Kibbutz experience in the 70s or 80s is aware of these issues knows these characters and like as not can put a face to the names.Its been along time since the author lived in Israel, her characters are as real and relevant today as they were back then.
The tale is well told with abundant and obvious firsthand knowledge of her subject.
An enjoyable read I highly recommend to all those ex volunteers out there. .
A beautifully told story of love, loss, and friendship
A story of love, loss, and friendship told in beautifully sparse prose. The book is suffused with the dust and heat of the landscape, the despair of war and of simple love lost; duty and opportunity and freedom denied and hope that always rises. I enjoyed this a lot: with tiny details it took me to places I've never been and into the minds and lives of people trapped in their own stories and their country's history.
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Title: The Inbetween People
Author: Emma McEvoy
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
I am writing this for you Saleem. I am writing about us, about how I loved you, and how I killed you.
As Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell of a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching day in July, and the story of Saleems family, whose loss of their ancestral home in 1948 cast a long shadow over their lives. Avi and Saleem understand about the past: they believe it can be buried, reduced to nothing. But then September 2000 comes and war breaks out - endless, unforgiving, and filled with loss. As the Intifada rips their peoples apart, they learn that war devours everything - even seemingly insignificant, utterly mundane things - and that sometimes, if you do not speak of these things, they are lost to you forever.
Set among the white chalk mountains of Galilee and the hostile terrain of the Negev desert, The Inbetween People is a story of longing that deals with hatred, forgiveness, and the search for redemption.
Emma McEvoy, born in the town of Dalkey in County Dublin in 1973, read history and politics at University College Dublin. She later settled in Israel, where she lived on a kibbutz on the border between Israel and Lebanon. She now lives in West Cork with her husband and son and works as a project manager for Cisco Systems.
Critic Reviews:
Sparingly told and sharply drawn, the story brings forward the desert itself as a kind of character, its smells and storms defining the atmosphere. The novel tackles the complex theme of what the war over the fate of Israel has meant for its inhabitants in moving and highly personal terms. A poetic and painful examination of the legacy of loss in a land with a long history of it. (Booklist)
A first novel that examines personal grief and political grievances in contemporary IsraelAn impressive debut. (Kirkus Reviews)
Emma McEvoy brings a vibrant and original new voice to Irish writing. Turning away from traditional and well trodden literary landscapes, she finds both a narrative and a setting that sparkle with fresh imagination. (David Park, author of The Truth Commissioner)
Members Reviews:
Kibbutz memories
The young Kibbutznik who refuses to do his reserve army duty in the occupied territories.
The Kibbutz wife who runs off with the volunteer
The young couple of different cultural backgrounds that must leave the country to escape their families wrath.
Anyone who did the Kibbutz experience in the 70s or 80s is aware of these issues knows these characters and like as not can put a face to the names.Its been along time since the author lived in Israel, her characters are as real and relevant today as they were back then.
The tale is well told with abundant and obvious firsthand knowledge of her subject.
An enjoyable read I highly recommend to all those ex volunteers out there. .
A beautifully told story of love, loss, and friendship
A story of love, loss, and friendship told in beautifully sparse prose. The book is suffused with the dust and heat of the landscape, the despair of war and of simple love lost; duty and opportunity and freedom denied and hope that always rises. I enjoyed this a lot: with tiny details it took me to places I've never been and into the minds and lives of people trapped in their own stories and their country's history.