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The
2003 Award
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Martyrs' Crossing by Amy Wilentz
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Simon & Schuster ISBN 0684854368 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Martyrs'
Crossing tells a story of love, fear, divided loyalties, ruined friendships,
personal sacrifice and the ambiguities of war set in the turbulence of Israel
and the West Bank. One rainy night at a Jerusalem checkpoint, Israeli Lieutenant Ari Doron is ordered to refuse passage to a young Palestinian mother and her sick boy. The incident leads to a series of riots, and Doron finds himself pulled into the bitter political aftermath as battles and bus bombs explode around him. He is drawn to Marina, the boy's American-born mother. And though she is on the other side of the bloody struggle, she finds herself thinking of Doron as 'her soldier'. In another place, at another time, they might have been lovers, but here their story moves toward a tragic conclusion with the kind of inevitability that war imposes. Marina's father, an eminent Boston heart specialist and an outspoken Palestinian intellectual, is also sucked into the conflict he thought he had left behind long ago. Now, back in the streets of his youth, he must choose whether to support his old comrades as they manipulate his grandson's story in an ugly propaganda campaign, or break with them and wreck his last remaining childhood friendship. Caught in history's terrible catastrophe, all three become pawns for larger, inescapable forces. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Amy Wilentz won the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for non-fiction and the Whiting Writers Award, and was a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990. She is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier and has written for The Nation, The New Republic and The New York Times. She was the Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker from 1995 to 1997. Martyrs' Crossing is her first novel. She lives in New York City with her husband and three sons. |
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