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The Bridges of Jerusalem
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781996848043
Publisher: Entourage Media
Published: Feb 22 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, four students from different faiths and cultural traditions are drawn together by a shared love of literature and the human questions great books invite them to ask. In lecture halls, libraries, cafés, and city streets, Ahuva, Habib, Olivia, and Khalil discover that stories can do more than reflect the world. They can open hearts, challenge inherited assumptions, and create connection where fear and division have long held sway.
But bridges are never built in comfort alone.
As friendship deepens and emotional stakes rise, each of them must confront the weight of identity, faith, history, and belonging. What begins as intellectual exchange becomes something far more personal: a test of whether empathy, dialogue, and shared humanity can endure in a world shaped by conflict.
Bridges of Jerusalem is a thoughtful literary novel about literature, connection, and the courage to keep listening across difference. It is rooted in the belief that stories can open hearts, deepen empathy, and remind us that beneath history, identity, and conflict, our shared humanity still has the power to draw us toward one another.
About the author:Nasser Dasht Peyma was born in 1961 in Tabriz, a historic city in northwestern Iran shaped by layers of culture, language, and faith. He holds a PhD from Panjab University in Chandigarh, India, and has taught literature and supervised graduate research in Iran and India, including at Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, and Shoolini University. His academic and creative work has long been rooted in a belief that literature can open dialogue across cultures, histories, and identities.
After moving to Canada, he chose to devote himself more fully to creative writing. His published work spans scholarship, translation, drama, and fiction, including How to Study Modern Drama, Postcolonial Drama, Golnaz and Golyar, Echoes of the Unbound Sky, and Eco-Literature and Environmental Advocacy: Bridging Theory and Practice.
Across both scholarship and storytelling, his work reflects a sustained commitment to literature as a bridge between past and present, self and other, division and hope.
I believe stories can open hearts, deepen understanding, and bring people closer across even the deepest divides. - Nasser Dasht PeymaAlso in
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