'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 in 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 July day, and the story of Saleem's 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. And in the
midst of the Intifada, which rips their peoples apart, they both
learn that war devours everything, that even seemingly
insignificant, utterly mundane, things get lost in war and that,
sometimes, if you do not speak of these things, they are lost to
you forever. Set amongst the white chalk Galilee Mountains and the
hostile desert terrain of the Negev Desert, the inbetween people is
a story of longing that deals with hatred, forgiveness, and the
search for redemption. The haunting poetic tone is not unlike that
of Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road', whilst the themes examined are
similar to those dealt with by Pat Barker in 'The Ghost Road'. The
simplicity of the tone is unflinching throughout, and depicts the
eternal search for a home and a sense of place.
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