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The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel
by
Linda Grant
"The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the center of the Middle East and the more I studied these solutions, the more I thought that they depended for their implementation on a population of table football men, painted in the col...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
April 28th 2008
by Virago UK
(first published April 28th 2006)
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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started this book.
The title suggested a book that could be very serious, yet the picture on the cover suggested humour and a tongue-in-cheek approach to storytelling.
In the end, this book was amazing to read as far as I’m concerned.
The author captures real Israelis with the quotes and profiles she uses. It went so far that I would have sworn she’d been talking to my friends, as some of the people she talks to and quotes in this book s...more
The title suggested a book that could be very serious, yet the picture on the cover suggested humour and a tongue-in-cheek approach to storytelling.
In the end, this book was amazing to read as far as I’m concerned.
The author captures real Israelis with the quotes and profiles she uses. It went so far that I would have sworn she’d been talking to my friends, as some of the people she talks to and quotes in this book s...more
Grant is an engaging character, and she has some amusing anecdotes about life in Israel. But they're culled from fairly brief engagement with the country, and she doesn't really have much to contribute.
Israel
A great read while I was in Israel--it was great to see my life mirrored in these essays (especially the inexplicably inefficient mopping system they have here). Grant really captures the Israeli chutzpah, as she lived in Tel Aviv during the second intifata.
Shayna
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Travelers, People interested in Middle East culture/politics
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Evy bought it for me at the airport. She thought it looked good.
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non-fiction,
books-by-journalists
Grant shares some interesting bits of insight from her time spent in Israel. Nothing earth-shattering here, but a good read nonetheless.
I learned about Israeli's what I did not learn while I was there.
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Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on 15 February 1951, the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. She was educated at the Belvedere School (GDST), read English at the University of York, completed an M.A. in English at MacMaster University, Hamilton, On...more
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Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on 15 February 1951, the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. She was educated at the Belvedere School (GDST), read English at the University of York, completed an M.A. in English at MacMaster University, Hamilton, On...more
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