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Ehrenreich, Ben, author.

The way to the spring : life and death in Palestine / Ben Ehrenreich.

New York : Penguin Press, 2016.

©2016

xiv, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

A brave and necessary immersion into the lives and struggles of a group of everyday Palestinians. In cities and small villages alike, men and women, young and old, a group of unforgettable characters share their lives with Ehrenreich and make their own case for resistance and resilience in the face of life under occupation. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, they are a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine.

Military occupation -- Social aspects -- West Bank.

Palestinian Arabs -- West Bank -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Occupied territories.

West Bank -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

West Bank -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

West Bank -- Ethnic relations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-411) and index.

Part one. Nabi Saleh. Prologue -- Life is beautiful -- Interlude: The nation of Hani Amer -- The peace of the brave -- Interlude: Every beginning is different -- Above the carob tree -- Interlude: Stagecraft -- The ant and the sweet -- Part two. Hebron -- Prologue -- A matter of hope -- Much less a country -- Part three. Low clouds -- Snow -- Interlude: The humiliation machine -- Poker -- Interlude: What you see -- So easy, so hard -- Part four. A deep dark blue -- Prologue: If only -- My brother's keeper -- Satan never dreamed -- Epilogue.

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