{"product_id":"the-thinking-heart-by-david-grossman-9781787335509","title":"The Thinking Heart","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInternational Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow could this massacre have happened?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn eleven essays, David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who simply want to live in peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all—Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083033985260,"sku":"9781787335509","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9884133482824.jpg?v=1765279340","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-thinking-heart-by-david-grossman-9781787335509","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}