Martyrs' Crossing Author:Amy Wilentz ?SOPHISTICATED AND SUSPENSEFUL . . . TAUTLY WRITTEN . . . Wilentz knows the world she writes about very well, and her descriptions have a solid specificity that lends authority to her fiction.? — ?The New York Times Book Review — ?At a closed Israeli checkpoint, Marina, a Palestinian mother, clutches her ailing boy, desperate for access to Jerusal... more »em and its doctors. When a young Israeli soldier waits too long before deciding to disobey orders, a martyr is born. Thus begins a graceful, painful, illuminating novel of the Middle East. . . . [Wilentz?s] prose tugs at the reader. . . . The characters are magnetic. . . . [This] is a very human tale of regrets, revenge, and the elusive nature of absolution.?
?Entertainment Weekly
?SO PRECISE, SO STARTLING, SO UNFORGETTABLE. . . . These characters are all pawns of history and politics, but Wilentz makes them live.?
?Los Angeles Times
?MAGNIFICENT . . . Wilentz writes with a prose style reminiscent of The New Yorker?s highest ambitions: crystalline, pure, faultlessly communicative. . . . Like the best documentaries, Martyrs? Crossing allows us unprecedented access to a little-understood and often misrepresented part of the world.?
?Chicago Tribune
?A BRILLIANTLY RESEARCHED MEDIDATION ON THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST . . . Martyr?s Crossing matches Damascus Gate in the quality of research and the mass of intriguing characters?and yet it remains a lean thriller.?