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“A devastating portrait of unending turbulence in Palestine.” - Kirkus Reviews “Ben Ehrenreich’s extraordinary new book, The Way to the Spring, chronicles individual Palestinians who live with this existential struggle and, in his words, ‘decline to consent to one’s own eradication, to fight actively or through deceptively simple acts of refusal against powers far stronger than oneself.’ The timing of this particular kind of work could not be better.” - The Brooklyn Rail It should be read by friends and foes of Israel alike.” - The Economist “An impassioned and humane story.” - O Magazine “Ehrenreich's haunting, poignant and memorable stories add up to a weighty contribution to the Palestinian side of the scales of history."- New York Times Book Review
" The Way to the Spring is a riveting and powerful work….Readers near and far who seek greater understanding of how Palestinians live - and the violence they endure - are well served by Ehrenreich’s book.” - Haaretz After reading it, you don’t know whether to despair at the callousness and self-righteousness of human beings, or to wonder at their resilience and creativity." -Yuval Noah Harari, The Guardian, Best Books of 2016 "Ben Ehrenreich’s The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine is a heartbreaking account of the brutal and often surreal realities of life under the Israeli occupation. In a great act of bravery, empathy and understanding, Ben Ehrenreich, by placing us in the footsteps of ordinary Palestinians and telling their story with surpassing literary power and grace, makes it impossible for us to turn away.
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Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints, and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, this is a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine. Palestine is, by any measure, whatever one's politics, one such place. We are familiar with brave journalists who travel to bleak or war-torn places on a mission to listen and understand, to gather the stories of people suffering from extremes of oppression and want: Katherine Boo, Ryszard Kapuściński, Ted Conover, and Philip Gourevitch among them.
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Now comes the powerful new work that has always been his ultimate goal, The Way to the Spring. Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkable New York Times Magazine cover story. From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life