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House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood
House of Windows Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood Author:Adina Hoffman Living in Israel for the past eight years, Adina Hoffman observed the nuances of life in a divided city. By focusing on the day-to-day rhythms of her close-knit neighborhood - a sort of urban village located on the seam between the western (Jewish) and eastern (Arab) sides of Jerusalem - Hoffman offers a rich, precise, and refreshingly honest po... more »rtrait of a place that is often reduced to generalization and cliche. The narrative consists of intimate portraits: a Moroccan-Jewish grocer, an aging civil servant, a Palestinian gardener, a nosy mother of ten, and others. And its gaze and ambition gradually widen to take in larger questions of identity and exile. "This is a work of literary art, comparable to Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli in its compassion, eloquence, and exilic sensitivity." - Phillip Lopate« less