ThebestworkyetfromthePulitzerfinalistandbest-sellingauthorofFortheReliefofUnbearableUrges--apoliticalthrillerthatunfoldsinthehighlychargedterritoryoftheIsraeli-Palestinianconflictandpivotsonthecomplexrelationshipbetweenasecretprisonerandhisguard.Aprisonerinasecretcell.Theguardwhohaswatchedoverhimadozenyears.AnAmericanwaitressinParis.AyoungPalestinianmaninBerlinwhostrikesupanoddfriendshipwithawealthyCanadianbusinessman.AndTheGeneral,Israel’smostcontroversialleader,wholiesdyinginahospital,theonlymanwhoknowsoftheprisoner’sexistence.FromthesevastlydifferentlivesNathanEnglanderhaswovenapowerful,intenselysuspensefulportraitofanationrivenbyinsolubleconflict,evenasthelivesofitscitizensbecomefatefullyandinextricablyentwined--apoliticalthrillerofthehighestorderthatinterrogatestheanguished,violentdivisionbetweenIsraelisandPalestinians,anddramatizestheimmensemoralambiguitieshauntingbothsides.Whoisright,whoiswrong--whoistheguard,whoistrulytheprisoner?AtourdeforcefromoneofAmerica’smostacclaimedvoicesincontemporaryfiction.
