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No Charge for Looking
Trying to understand history, life, and the culture of people who live in the city of Nazareth- Muslims, Christians, Arabs, and Jews - Melanie Markowitz, a young American woman with journalistic ambitions gets an assignment to spend a year there, reporting what she learns. Her life is rich, funny, and full in this unusual novel.
180 pages, Hardcover
First published October 31, 1988
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March 29, 2016
To say that "No Charge For Looking" by Esther Cohen is a novel about a young American Jewish woman who goes to Israel on a journalistic assignment and has an affair with a Palestinian man and an Israeli man concurrently is far too simple. The secret is that the novel is sneaky. You think its going to be a "on the one hand this"/"on the other hand that" sort of story and you will then know which side stands for what. But this novel is much more than that. It is complex and nuanced and thoroughly engaging. The reader leaves the novel feeling wiser, yet knowing that you can't know there until you go there. Even then . . . Read the book and you'll know more.
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