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In East Jerusalem Noir―published simultaneously with West Jerusalem Noir―the Akashic Noir Series turns its gaze to one of the world's most fascinating locales, in this volume from the perspective of Palestinian writers; translated from Arabic
"East Jerusalem's thorny politics run through each of the thirteen stories comprising this sturdy entry…Why read it?
1 author picked East Jerusalem Noir as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved it because it was new and exciting for me to read stories by Arab authors who write about Jerusalem and, indirectly, also about Israel.
It’s not easy to have unmediated access to what people think of Israel and Palestine, from both Arabs and Jews, and I liked how this book uses literary imagination to do so, to speak about the paradoxes of time and space of these places.
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