I will not summarize the book. Abstracts often depreciate emotion. I'm a librarian, I read a lot, I just finished this book and am totally upset. In a world where you get used to everything even the most terrible images, dealt out every day on TV, in newspapers, this book awakens us suddenly, opens our eyes, it's an explosion emotion, the Jewish problem / Palestinian and humanity in general. From the same author and a different problem "Swallows of Kabul" are in the same vein