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Underground, Above the Wound: A Novel of Gaza
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Ashlyn Daire
Published: Feb 22 2025
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beneath the Bombs, a World Transformed. Above, the Wound of War.
Sergeant Maya, an Israeli soldier, is prepared for combat. Trained to see only the enemy, she's captured in Gaza and thrust into a reality that shatters every certainty. Imprisoned not just by walls, but by preconceptions, Maya finds herself in a converted schoolhouse where the rules of war are unexpectedly rewritten.
As days turn into weeks in the dim light of captivity, Maya encounters captors unlike any she imagined. Kindness coexists with vigilance, poetry with military precision, and in the quiet moments shared with a Palestinian resistance fighter named Khalil, a profound shift begins to take root within her.
Underground, Above the Wound: A Novel of Gaza is a breathtakingly lyrical and deeply moving story of transformation in the heart of conflict. Step into the hidden world beneath the headlines, where Maya must confront not only her captors but the deeply ingrained narratives of her past. This literary novel explores the unexpected humanity that can bloom in the most unlikely places, the resilience of the human spirit, and the fragile possibility of empathy across seemingly insurmountable divides.
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