Winter in Jerusalem Author:Blanche D'Alpuget Danielle Green, a 38-year-old screenwriter, has returned to Israel--the land of her birth, which she left as a child--and to her father, who has become a stranger. While she is researching a film about Masada, she searches for her own past and future during the most bitter winter of Israel's war with Lebanon. Her political and spiritual journey ... more »reflects the lives of the ordinary and extraordinary people she encounters: Gideon, a young soldier whose conscience is torn by the war; his father, Amos, struggling to maintain his liberal ideals; Bennie Kidron, the mercurial producer of the Masada movie; Alice Sadler, Danielle's former teacher; and terrorists who prove that "nothing shapes reality like violence." Winter in Jerusalem is an unforgettable portrait of a contemporary woman caught in the clash of cultures and torn by love and ambition in a nation under siege.« less