Beat : The True Story of a Suicide Bomb and a Heart Paperback / softback
by Rowan Somerville
Paperback / softback
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In the midst of the Second Intifada, two acts of extreme violence lead to an act of extraordinary humanity.
A suicide bomb was detonated outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing twenty-two people, mostly young Israelis.
The next day, in an apparently retributive act of violence, an Israeli settler shot Palestinian pharmacist, Mazan Al-Joulani in the neck, rendering him brain-dead.
From the ashes of these deadly events rose an incredible act of generosity when the family of Al-Joulani agreed to donate his heart to a dying Israeli.
The son of pioneering cardiologists, Rowan Somerville travelled to the Levant to speak with survivors and their families, interviewing the surgeon who performed the transplant, and meeting the family of the suicide bomber Saeed Hotari.
In this close look at humanity at work, Somerville's writing is at once personal and objective, an outsider's unbiased view of events steeped in, but overcoming, prejudice.
The close observations and fastpaced narrative style have the immediacy of a contemporary thriller.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Publication Date:01/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781843517054
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Publication Date:01/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781843517054