<p>No other work on Palestine or Zionism be it an essay a film or a piece of fiction will give you so sensitive and searing a glimpse into what the conflict in that part of the world is all about. This collection of short stories is a courageous throwback to an age when literature was a branch of history or history a branch of literature. One hundred years of struggle are transformed into real-life characters that breathe argue give birth or die in the span of just over one hundred pages.</p>