Returning to Israel to attend his father's wake, Lev Dubnow is shocked and deeply unsettled by what he finds. While on a trip up through the West Bank, Lev witnesses the daily currency of careless humiliation and intimidation, and soon becomes involved in a number of incidents. He is eventually so moved that he voluntarily provokes a confrontation, which has devastating and lasting consequences. From his difficult entry into Israel and his meetings with members of his family—each with a different perspective on the Arab–Israeli conflict—through his renewed appraisal of the Jerusalem he once knew and the conflicts and violence of the West Bank, this is a powerful, sensitively told narrative. Through fast-moving plot and strong characters, this book explores the complexities of both family and political tensions, paralleling the similarities between the intimate difficulties of the Dubnow family and the difficulties the Israelis and Palestinians are contending with, preventing a solution to their conflict.
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Peter Bourne spent his early years in the South of England and studied Law at Liverpool University. Recently, he travelled to the Near East, and spent the best part of a year in The Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine/Israel, setting in Jerusalem for several months. Peter currently lives in South London, where he writes and paints. The Deserter is his first novel.
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