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House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for House of WindowsAn American woman and her husband move to Jerusalem and discover the many faces of community, exile, and history. By focusing on the day-to-day rhythms of her close-knit neighborhood, Hoffman offers a refreshingly honest portrait of a place that is often reduced to generalization and cliche.
Full description- Publisher: BROADWAY BOOKS
- Published: 12 March 2002
- Format: Paperback 226 pages
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- Categories: Middle Eastern History | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780767910194 ISBN 10: 0767910192
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Full description for House of Windows
A brilliant and moving evocation of the rhythms of life (and the darker shadows below it) in a working-class quarter of the world's most fascinating and divided city. In the tradition of the literature of place perfected by such expatriate writers as M. F. K. Fisher and Isak Dinesen, Adina Hoffman's "House of Windows" compellingly evokes Jerusalem through the prism of the neighborhood where she has lived for eight years since moving from the United States. In a series of interlocking sketches and intimate portraits of the inhabitants of Musrara, a neighborhood on the border of the western (Jewish) and eastern (Arab) sides of the city-a Sephardic grocer, an aging civil servant, a Palestinian gardener, a nosy mother of ten-Hoffman constructs an intimate view of Jerusalem life that will be a revelation to American readers bombarded with politics and headlines. By focusing on the day-to-day pace of existence in this close-knit community, she provides a rich, precise, and refreshingly honest portrait of a city often reduced to cliche-and takes in the larger question of identity and exile that haunts Jews and Palestinians alike.
