A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy-阿卜杜勒·萨拉马的一天

2012年，耶路撒冷发生了一场灾难性的交通事故，一辆满载巴勒斯坦儿童的校车起火，火情持续了三十多分钟，紧急救援人员才赶到现场。

本书以编年史的形式记录了此次灾难。驻耶路撒冷记者内森·萨尔追踪了一名受害者的父亲，并在现代巴勒斯坦人遭受掠夺的背景下审视了这场灾难的救援过程。他描述了以色列的“隔离架构”——包括检查站和错综复杂的交通规则——这些使救援变得复杂的措施原本是毫无必要的。

这本书通过一个发生在耶路撒冷的真实事件，书中的核心是Abed Salama的故事，一个年轻的男孩，在冲突中失去了生命。作者通过详细的叙述和对事件的解剖，揭示了在冲突背景下，普通人如何受到影响。


书名：A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy《阿卜杜勒·萨拉马的一天：一个耶路撒冷悲剧的解剖》

作者：Nathan Thrall

简介：WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION

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.