Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Island to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent him to serve as a prison guard at Ketziot, the largest jail in the Middle East. Realizing that among the prisoners were the future leaders of Palestine, and that this was a unique opportunity to learn from them about themselves, he began an extended dialogue with a prisoner named Rafiq. This is an account of life in that harsh desert prison and of that dialogue - ...
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Jeffrey Goldberg moved from Long Island to Israel while still a college student. In the middle of the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, the Israeli army sent him to serve as a prison guard at Ketziot, the largest jail in the Middle East. Realizing that among the prisoners were the future leaders of Palestine, and that this was a unique opportunity to learn from them about themselves, he began an extended dialogue with a prisoner named Rafiq. This is an account of life in that harsh desert prison and of that dialogue - the accusations, explanations, fears, prejudices and aspirations each man expressed - which continues to this day. We see how their discussion deepened over the years as Goldberg returned to the States, to Washington, DC, where Rafiq coincidentally became a graduate student, and the political landscape of the Middle East changed. And we see, again and again, how their willingness to confront religious, cultural, and political differences made possible what both could finally acknowledge to be a true, if necessarily tenuous, friendship. Prisoners is a remarkable book: spare, impassioned, energetic, and unstinting in its candour about both the darkness and the hope buried within the animosities of the Middle East.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. Fine/Near fine. Picador, 2007. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) in fine condition) in fine condition, with Dj(two small nicks, scratches and crease on the Dj cover) in near fine condition. The book is new with a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages.314pp including Author's note. Price un-clipped.
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Fine in Nearr Fine jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 316 pages, brown quarter cloth. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition, with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine lightly worn dust jacket, with original price present.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscribed and Signed By Author Hardcover 8vo with dust jacket. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Untrimmed edges. 312 pages telling the story of the friendship between an American Jewish prson guard in Israel and a prisoners who was a rising leader in the PLO.
