About the Night
On a hot summer day in 1947, on a grandstand overlooking Jerusalem, Elias and Lila fall deeply, irrevocably in love.Tragically, they come from two different worlds. Elias is a Christian Arab living on the eastern side of the newly divided city, and Lila is a Jew living on the western side. A...
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On a hot summer day in 1947, on a grandstand overlooking Jerusalem, Elias and Lila fall deeply, irrevocably in love.Tragically, they come from two different worlds. Elias is a Christian Arab living on the eastern side of the newly divided city, and Lila is a Jew living on the western side. A growing conflict between their cultures casts a heavy shadow over the region and t
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B019GWOOWC
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Pages no: 395
Edition language: English
This is a super sad love story in my opinion. It makes you have lots of feelings, but it's mostly feeling sorry for the couple. They are in love, but Israel is split into Jewish and Arab sections. Then, it's at war. Their not being allowed together goes on for years and years and years. How ter...
This is a beautiful story. There's so much to love and appreciate here. This is one of those stories that really make me love historical fiction. The setting as a big part of what I loved about the story. People try to do stories of this kind in made-up scenarios and though some work, using the even...
8 years ago
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