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Ladder To The Moon
It is 1977. Leila Ashrawi, from a middle-class Palestinian family and John Ferris, a New Zealand Army captain serving as a UN military observer on the Israel-Lebanon border, meet and fall in love. In a frenetic, confused and violent world their plan to make a new life together comes only at the expense of great anguish and desperation. There is page-turning drama and heart-stopping tension here, and first-class writing, but also humour, comradeship and, above all, a deeply moving love story that stretches across more than two decades.
306 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2016
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January 3, 2018
A beautifully written book. Easy to read, and the author paints a picture of the conflict that is believable... as well as having a healthy dose of artistic liberty for the sake of a good story.
It was well balanced, there are sobering vignettes of civil war, but I felt it was not too gratuitous, and the comradeship does wonders to lighten the book, despite its horrors.
The main character frustrated me a little, for the gravity of what he was considering he seemed to make up his mind very quickly and he took too many risks (sometimes I wanted to reach through the pages and shake him by the shoulders!), but I guess this fits as one of the themes of the book is how people who live through war can have an amazing ability to keep going and live their lives for what really matters to them. And how many young kiwi men have done some pretty silly things for a cute girl? :)
This book saves the biggest punch for the last pages. Absolutely worth reading.
It was well balanced, there are sobering vignettes of civil war, but I felt it was not too gratuitous, and the comradeship does wonders to lighten the book, despite its horrors.
The main character frustrated me a little, for the gravity of what he was considering he seemed to make up his mind very quickly and he took too many risks (sometimes I wanted to reach through the pages and shake him by the shoulders!), but I guess this fits as one of the themes of the book is how people who live through war can have an amazing ability to keep going and live their lives for what really matters to them. And how many young kiwi men have done some pretty silly things for a cute girl? :)
This book saves the biggest punch for the last pages. Absolutely worth reading.
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