A MOVING, OFTEN TROUBLING EXPLORATION OF FAITH, SELF-BELIEF AND IDENTITY... THE WRITER HAS A RARE COURAGE. THIS IS A NOVEL FROM A SKILLED STORYTELLER WORKING AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS'


                             Times Literary Supplement

Tel Aviv. A suicide bomber has killed 19 in a packed city centre restaurant. Dr Amin Jaafari, an Israeli Arab, is a surgeon at a nearby hospital. Respected and admired by his colleagues, the doctor represents integration at its most successful. But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn as his beloved wife's body is found among the dead...could she have caused the devastation?

Intense and humane, thoughtful, sensitive and heartfelt, the book displays a profound understanding of what can seem incomprehensible.
 
The fuse lit at the beginning of the novel crackles through the story to its clever destination'