{"product_id":"9780345449832","title":"Martyrs' Crossing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“SOPHISTICATED AND SUSPENSEFUL . . . TAUTLY WRITTEN . . . Wilentz knows the world she writes about very well, and her descriptions have a solid specificity that lends authority to her fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At a closed Israeli checkpoint, Marina, a Palestinian mother, clutches her ailing boy, desperate for access to Jerusalem and its doctors. When a young Israeli soldier waits too long before deciding to disobey orders, a martyr is born. Thus begins a graceful, painful, illuminating novel of the Middle East. . . . [Wilentz’s] prose tugs at the reader. . . . The characters are magnetic. . . . [This] is a very human tale of regrets, revenge, and the elusive nature of absolution.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“SO PRECISE, SO STARTLING, SO UNFORGETTABLE. . . . These characters are all pawns of history and politics, but Wilentz makes them live.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“MAGNIFICENT . . . Wilentz writes with a prose style reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e’s highest ambitions: crystalline, pure, faultlessly communicative. . . . Like the best documentaries, \u003ci\u003eMartyrs’ Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e allows us unprecedented access to a little-understood and often misrepresented part of the world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A BRILLIANTLY RESEARCHED MEDIDATION ON THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST . . . \u003ci\u003eMartyr’s Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e matches \u003ci\u003eDamascus Gate\u003c\/i\u003e in the quality of research and the mass of intriguing characters–and yet it remains a lean thriller.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e–The New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024784474352,"sku":"9780345449832","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345449832_p0.jpg?v=1763687209","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345449832","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}