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Barcode31662001778380
LocationWinamac
TitleGather the olives : on food and hope and the Holy Land / Bret Lott.
AuthorLott, Bret
Call No956.94 LOT
CollectionAdult 900-999
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LocationCirc StatusCall NoIssue Name
WinamacAvailable956.94 LOT 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781639821631 : $33.22
Personal Name Lott, Bret
Title Statement Gather the olives : on food and hope and the Holy Land / Bret Lott.
Imprint Seattle : Slant Books, 2024.
Physical Description 159 pages : 23 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Summary, Etc. "Gather the Olives is a dangerous book. That's because it is about peace in a time when peace in the Holy Land is a faraway, even radical notion. It is about hope and food and community and the way there can be solidarity in sharing a meal. Hence the danger: this book might remind its brave readers of how peace is nourished and how hope can't be extinguished. Over the years, Bret Lott-the bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the novel Jewel (an Oprah's Book Club selection)-has lived and taught in Jerusalem, affording him the opportunity to travel throughout Israel and the surrounding area. Now, in Gather the Olives, this gifted storyteller has brought together a collection of intimate portraits of the people, the food, and the hope for peace to be found in a region ravaged by war and conflict. Through meditations on such varied matters as an olive oil cooperative run by Israeli and Palestinian women, a non-kosher butcher shop in the middle of upscale-and very kosher-German Colony, the nighttime harvesting of olives by Bedouins in downtown Jerusalem, a traditional Shabbat dinner at an ancient home within the walls of the Old City, a simple yet beautiful plate of fruit in an office in Ramallah, Bret Lott considers how food and the people with whom we share it can bring together hearts and souls in a lasting, meaningful, and peaceful way."--Amazon
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Food habits.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Jewish-Arab relations
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Arab-Israeli conflict.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Cooking, Palestinian Arab.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Cooking, Israeli.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Jerusalem Social conditions.
Location 956.94 LOT 31662001778380

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