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Emma Williams, It's Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2006)
Emma Williams' It's Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir is a sustained masterpiece of the contemporary genre. It deserves to be read very widely, and almost certainly will be once it becomes more accessible in paperback and is translated, as it surely must be, into Middle-Eastern and European languages.
Nothing I have read during the last decade about the Israel-Palestine conflict in journalistic reportage, political analyses, histories, personal stories, or novels comes close to its brilliance in exposing the accumulating human debris of this monstrous 'situation'.
Williams' writing in this memoir displays the tenacity of Anna Funder, the intrepidity of a Ryszard Kapuscinski,...
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