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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed’s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge.
In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall—hailed for his “severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time)—offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.
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“Through the painstaking accumulation of detail after detail he enables the reader who has never been to Palestine to experience life under Israeli occupation."
— Times Literary Supplement (London)
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"Thrall humanizes the consequences of systemic decay."
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“A powerful evocation of a two-tiered society that treats children as potential combatants."
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“[Thrall] manages to find drama in the most boring thing the Israelis do―which is bend the situation to their will through administration.”
— Time
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Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
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A Time Magazine Best Book of 2023
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One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year
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A London Economist Best Book of 2023
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A London Financial Times Best Book of the Year
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A New Republic Best Book of 2023
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A Booklist Best Book of the Year
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Among longlisted titles for Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, 2023
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023
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Among longlisted titles for New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2023
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Winner of Pulitzer Prize - Winner, 2024
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Among longlisted titles for Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, 2023
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023
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Among longlisted titles for New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2023
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Winner of Pulitzer Prize - Winner, 2024
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About Nathan Thrall
Nathan Thrall received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. He is also the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the London Guardian, London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books and been translated into more than twenty languages. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and he has taught at Bard College.
About Peter Ganim
Peter Ganim, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an American actor who has appeared on stage, on television, and in film. He has performed voice-over work since 1994.