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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Predictably uneven collection of essays. I went to the Jerusalem book launch for this a few weeks ago and found myself in the audience at the Q&A yelling at Michael Chabon, one of my favourite authors and his wife. Not my finest hour. Now that I have read all the essays in this collection, I'm still a bit conflicted about the potential impact of this project. Saying that the Occupation is bad seems as redundant as saying that Trump's Presidency is bad. No one intelligent is going to argue with you. If anything some of the essays here are a little too even-handed because if the soldiers who maintain the occupation are partly victims too, then what exactly are the authors confronting? There's also a fair amount of repetition which I guess is to be expected given that some of these writers traveled together, but there are also some gems here including Assaf Gavron's piece about football and Colum McCann moving story about Combatants for peace. I went into this concerned that it might be a fruitless exercise and finished it finding it mostly toothless. ( ) Various writers on Israel’s Occupied Territories.The writers are generally very talented, which makes the topic harder and easier to bear; they convey the pain of living under occupation, the arbitrary actions of others that control your life and make time unpredictable and endless, the way that Israel is trying to squeeze Palestinians out of the territories by squashing economic and other forms of development. A collection of stories by some of today's best writers that broke my heart and filled me with utter despair. I fail to understand how Jewish people, Holocaust survivors and their descendants feel justified in imposing their will on the Palestinians, taking away every shred of human dignity, killing them without abandon or hesitation, and locking an entire population into one concentration camp. If any nation should know the sacred value of each human being, it is Israel. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence—an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories and saw firsthand the injustice there—and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories.
...They came to “bear witness” to the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza, where thousands of reporters, nongovernmental organization staffers, activists and diplomats hover around a conflict with a death toll last year that was about a third of the homicide number in Baltimore. It’s the kind of Mideast conflagration where writers can sally forth in an air-conditioned bus, safely observe the natives for a few hours and make it back to a nice hotel for drinks. The resulting anthology, “Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation,” includes essays by American and international authors such as Eggers, Mario Vargas Llosa, Colum McCann and Colm Toibin — an impressive list — with a few locals thrown in. The visitors were shown around by anti-occupation activists and wrote up their experiences. Edited by Chabon and Waldman, the 26 essays here constitute a chorus of condemnation of Israel. The essays vary in tone and quality, but experienced journalists covering the Israel/Palestine story will recognize the usual impressions of reporters fresh from the airport. Cute Palestinian kids touched my hair! Beautiful tea glasses! I saw a gun! I lost my luggage, and that seems symbolic! Arabs do hip-hop! The soldiers are so young and rude! The writers interview the same people who are always interviewed in the West Bank, thinking it’s all new, and believe what they’re told. Chabon, for example, waxes sarcastic that in the West Bank you can spend months in administrative detention if you forget your ID card at home. But that isn’t true...Whatever this anthology set out to be, “Kingdom of Olives and Ash” is an unintentional group portrait of a certain set of intellectuals. Would they like a curated trip to a foreign country? Sign them up! Do they think a few days is enough to pass judgment on the participants in a century-old conflict? They do! These people are taken somewhere, and they go. Someone points, and they look. They can be trusted not to ask who’s pointing, who’s with them on the bus or who’s paying for the gas.
Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Mario Vargas Llosa, Colm Ti?bn?, Ayelet Waldman, Maylis de Kerangal, Graldine Brooks, Jacqueline Woodson, Ala Hlehel, Madeleine Thien, Rachel Kusher, RajaShehadeh, Lars Saabye Christensen, Emily Raboteau, Assaf Gavron, Taiye Selasi, Eimear McBride, Hari Kunzru, Lorraine Adams, Helon Habila, Eva Menasse, Anita Desai, PorochistaKhakpour, Fida Jiryis, Arnon Grunberg & Colum McCain. Michael Chabon y su esposa, la escritora de origen israel ?Ayelet Waldman, han convocado a algunas de las plumas ms? destacadas del panorama internacional para que nos den su visin? sobre un conflicto enquistado: la ocupacin? israel ?de Palestina. Veinticinco escritores de primer nivel aportan en este libro su visin? sobre la ocupacin? israel ?de Palestina. Invitados por la ONG Breaking the Silence (Rompiendo el Silencio), sus textos son apuntes del natural cuando se cumplen cincuenta a?s de la guerra de los Seis Da?s. Lejos del seguimiento medit?ico del conflicto, estas historias nacen de encuentros con ld?eres polt?icos, intelectuales y activistas, pero tambi? de la convivencia con empresarios, granjeros, abuelos, padres e hijos. Son testimonios como el de Mario Vargas Llosa en tribunales militares, en procesos a menores de edad con los nervios rotos por un programa de intimidacin? que siembra el p?ico para prevenir el hipot?ico terror. En estas pg?inas, el lector encontrar ?tambi? los recuerdos de Colm Ti?bn? y sus entrevistas con Yasser Arafat, o asistir ?a la estupefaccin? de un Michael Chabon que sigue los pasos de un norteamericano que ha perdido su nacionalidad y vive una existencia kafkiana desde que decidi ?residir el pueblo de su familia, en Cisjordania. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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