The Way To The Spring Life And Death In Palestine Ben Ehrenreich by Ben Ehrenreich 9780143110576, 9780698148192, 0143110578, 0698148193 instant download after payment.

“Ehrenreich's haunting, poignant & memorable stories add up to a weighty contribution to the Palestinian side of the scales of history.” —New York Times Book Review

“An impassioned & humane story.” —O Magazine 

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From an award-winning journalist, a brave & necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life 

Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to & living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities & its smallest villages. Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkable New York Times Magazine cover story. Now comes the powerful new work that has always been his ultimate goal, The Way to the Spring. We are familiar with brave journalists who travel to bleak or war-torn places on a mission to listen & understand, to gather the stories of people suffering from extremes of oppression & want: Katherine Boo, Ryszard Kapuściński, Ted Conover, & Philip Gourevitch among them. 

Palestine is, by any measure, whatever one's politics, one such place. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon & harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate & more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints, & barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, this is a population whose living conditions are unique, & indeed hard to imagine. In a great act of bravery, empathy & understanding, Ben Ehrenreich, by placing us in the footsteps of ordinary Palestinians & telling their story with surpassing literary power & grace, makes it impossible for us to turn away.