Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian LifeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice |
Contents
Prologue A Fairy Tale | 3 |
One The Key | 15 |
Two The PanArab Nation | 21 |
Three Promises Promises | 25 |
Four The Herods Gate Committee | 38 |
Five The Pepper Tree | 57 |
Six A Grapevine | 85 |
Seven Smashing Idols | 104 |
Twenty Interrogation | 290 |
Twentyone Ramle Prison | 314 |
Twentytwo Madrid | 336 |
Twentythree A Shadow Government | 353 |
Twentyfour Oslo | 364 |
Twentyfive The Disappearance | 383 |
Twentysix Porcupines and Roosters | 400 |
Twentyseven Holy of Holies | 420 |
Eight Sunflower | 129 |
Nine Monticello | 138 |
Ten The Lemon Tree Café | 151 |
Eleven The Salon | 171 |
Twelve Military Order 854 | 184 |
Thirteen Masquerade | 202 |
Fourteen Murder on the Via Dolorosa | 215 |
Fifteen Faisal Husseini | 229 |
Sixteen Annex Us | 235 |
Seventeen Sticks and Stones | 248 |
Eighteen The Exorcism | 264 |
Nineteen A Declaration of Independence | 280 |
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