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Before We Say Goodbye

Before We Say Goodbye

by Alastair Mc Ewen (Translator), Gabriella Ambrosio Degreein Philosophy (Author), Alastair McEwen (Translator), Gabriella Ambrosio Degree in Philosophy (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

This is no life. Sooner or later it must finish. It is seven a.m. on a spring morning in Jerusalem. Eighteen-year-old Dima trudges through the mud to college and reflects on many things, including her forthcoming marriage to her cousin Faris. Seventeen-year-old Myriam skips school to sit on the tree-lined hill overlooking the city and think about her friend Michael, whose death she still mourns. And Dima's and Myriam's families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - go about their ordinary, separate lives; for today is like every other day. Yet in seven hours' time, everything will have changed. For ever.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Walker
Published: 02 Aug 2010
ISBN 10: 140632504X
ISBN 13: 9781406325041
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Media Reviews
Juxtaposes cultural tradition and extremism with explosiveconsequences ... with an electrifying sense of pace and short, spare narrative that progresses the story at a real lick, this is a book that is guaranteed to make an impression as well as holding real appeal for less confident readers. -- Jake Hope * The Bookseller *
This is an imaginatively constructed work. Ambrosio's strength is the atmosphere she creates and maintains. * The Herald (Glasgow) *
Ambrosio's novella eloquently evokes the human consequences of this long-running conflict. * The Herald *
Before we say goodbye puts real-life breath into endless news stories, and bomb sites, and religious speculation,and horror, death and namelessness. It is a story about teenagers as people. * Church Times *
Author Bio
Gabriella Ambrosio is an Italian journalist, academic and businesswoman whose previous writing has been exclusively adult non-fiction. She is a former professor and currently president of an international advertising agency in Italy. She lives in Rome. As a young man Alastair McEwen worked at a variety of manual jobs, then spent ten years teaching English and history before finally turning to translation. He has since translated novels, non-fiction, essays, articles, poems, feature film scripts and operatic librettos and has worked with many of Italy's finest living writers, including Baricco, Busi, Calasso, Eco, Jaeggy and Tabucchi. Alastair lives and works in Milan.