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Bethlehem
Biography of a Town
Taschenbuch von Nicholas Blincoe
Sprache: Englisch

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'Part history, part travelogue and memoir, it reads like an extended love letter to a place on the brink . . . a highly discursive, frequently amusing, often tragic but always accessible history' Guardian

BETHLEHEM IS SO SUFFUSED WITH history and myth that it feels like an unreal city, even to thepeople who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical accounts.Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers.

Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. His portrait of Bethlehem sheds light on one of the world's most intractable political problems, and he maintains that if the long thread winding back to the city's ancient past is severed, the chances of an end to the Palestine-Israel conflict will be lost with it.

'Thorough and entertaining' Standpoint

'Majestic . . . [a] book of many marvellous things' John Lewis-Stempel

'Part history, part travelogue and memoir, it reads like an extended love letter to a place on the brink . . . a highly discursive, frequently amusing, often tragic but always accessible history' Guardian

BETHLEHEM IS SO SUFFUSED WITH history and myth that it feels like an unreal city, even to thepeople who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical accounts.Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers.

Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. His portrait of Bethlehem sheds light on one of the world's most intractable political problems, and he maintains that if the long thread winding back to the city's ancient past is severed, the chances of an end to the Palestine-Israel conflict will be lost with it.

'Thorough and entertaining' Standpoint

'Majestic . . . [a] book of many marvellous things' John Lewis-Stempel

Über den Autor
Nicholas Blincoe lived in in Bethlehem for over twenty years. He is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter and is currently a critic and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472128645
ISBN-10: 1472128648
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Blincoe, Nicholas
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Nicholas Blincoe
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2018
Gewicht: 0,23 kg
Artikel-ID: 121231376
Über den Autor
Nicholas Blincoe lived in in Bethlehem for over twenty years. He is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter and is currently a critic and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472128645
ISBN-10: 1472128648
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Blincoe, Nicholas
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Nicholas Blincoe
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2018
Gewicht: 0,23 kg
Artikel-ID: 121231376
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