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Rare glimpses over various border lines

Revisado: 07-24-19

First, this book is an important document, a collection of authentic testimonies, collected with great care and openness. Dana gracefully moves away from the stage and encourages her heroes to tell their story. Equally important, when getting back to the microphone, Dana reflects her experience of listening to the story and shares her understanding with the reader - these are sometimes moments of greater writing, when her vision is shared through her emotions.

The frame story and the analysis are often raw, the editorial struggle to put all the opposing narratives into a single package is clearly visible, the safety of academical distance from the subject is often a cover for borderline romantic longing for lost Eden. Thus, the frame itself is an authentic testimony of a postmodern intellectual vulnerability, stressed by the mainstream history rewriting, gender bias, urbanization, collective moral burden and even poor grammar on the streets. What I would like to see is a Woody Allen movie about the making of this book.

Overall, I would recommend this book for anyone willing to go beyond the borders to find strikingly different perspectives and realities. It goes beyond the story of Jerusalem and Palestinian-Israeli conflict, it is an example study of the cultural multiverse of a reality perception of the same time and place by the different societies, and thus might be of interest to a much broader auditory.

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