02117cam a2200361 i 4500 503262974 TxAuBib 20210603120000.0 170404s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017011795 9781524732738 hardback 27.00 1524732737 hardback 27.00 9780525434047 paperback 0525434046 paperback TxAuBib rda Englander, Nathan. Dinner at the center of the earth. Dinner at the center of the earth / Nathan Englander. First Edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 252 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence. From these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined--a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides. Who is right, who is wrong--who is the guard, who is truly the prisoner? A tour de force from one of America's most acclaimed voices in contemporary fiction"-- Provided by publisher. 20210603. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Thrillers. bisacsh FICTION / Jewish. Political fiction. Jewish fiction. Suspense fiction. TXLIV