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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama 2023
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy is an English-language book published in 2023 by Macmillan. Written by journalist Nathan Thrall, it recounts a 2012 school bus accident in which several Palestinian children and a teacher died. The narrative centers on how security infrastructure such as a separation wall and military checkpoints, along with segregation between Israeli settlements and Palestinians, caused significant delays in emergency response. These barriers, according to the author, were entirely human-made. The book follows Abed Salama, the father of one of the injured boys, as he searches for his son Milad. Thrall first covered the incident in a 2021 article in the New York Review of Books, later expanding it into this volume. The work contains 272 pages and was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction. It also served as a finalist for the Orwell Prize for political literature.
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- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781250291530
- Pages
- 272
