Message in a Bottle - Softcover

Zenatti, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747590443 ISBN 13: 9780747590446

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008

Synopsis

Following a suicide bomb attack on her local Jerusalem cafe, in which she and her friends could so easily have been its victims, a seventeen-year-old Israeli schoolgirl decides to send a message in a bottle to Gaza. An act of hope and desperation, Tal believes that by making contact with a Palestinian she will be able to begin a dialogue through which experiences can be shared, and, just possibly, some kind of mutual understanding achieved. Her message is found by a young man who calls himself Gazaman, and a remarkable email correspondence begins ...This is a mesmerising account of a turbulent relationship conducted between two people whose dialogue is in itself an act of revolution against the situations in which they both feel themselves to be trapped.

About this title

Product Description:

'I'm full of fear and full of hope writing to you like this...' After a suicide bomb attack on her local Jerusalem cafe, seventeen-year-old Israeli Tai Levine sends a message in a bottle to Gaza. It is a desperate act, but Tai hopes that by starting a dialogue with a Palestinian, their shared experiences could lead to some kind of mutual understanding. Her message is found by a young man calling himself Gazaman, and a remarkable email correspondance begins... An eye-opening novel from award-winning author Valerie Zenetti about two young people whose defiant relationship crosses dangerous boundaries.

Review:

`Zenatti sketches the history of the Middle East crisis as succinctly as possible without oversimplification. Yet her novel never trivialises or cheapens the grim, intractable situation by using it as the context for a "will they, won't they?" love story'
-- Financial Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0747590443
• ISBN 13: 9780747590446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160