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You know Lawrence Wright from his frequent contributions to the New Yorker. He is the distinguished prize-winning author of many gripping and revelatory nonfiction books, including The Looming Tower about Al Quaeda; Going Clear, about the mysterious organization behind Scientology; and Thirteen Days in September, the Herculean effort by Jimmy Carter to broker a lasting peace between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin.
He is simply one of America’s great journalists.Lawrence Wright is no stranger to fiction. In his new novel, The Human Scale, Wright revisits one of the most painful conflicts of our time: Israel and Palestine. Random House calls it a thriller, and it is that and so much more. A study of an impossible political situation, The Human Scale is a beautiful love story, it is a story of power, corruption and people in the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza, amid unending unrest, violence and extremism on all sides. An expert in the history of the region, Wright provides enormous historical, cultural, and political to the narrative that helps to humanize all of the characters Wright’s novel starts with a murder, and ends shortly after October 7 of 2023. It is one of the most haunting novels we’ve read in a long time.
The landscape of Israel is a most complex place on the best of days. Matt Gutman, Chief National News Correspondent for ABC News, spent eight years covering Israel and the Palestinian conflict, in addition to wars in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Afghanistan for the network. He knows the land and its people, as well as its cultural and historical framework. Matt is also the author of two books, including his recent book, No Time to Panic.
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