My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
基本信息
Author:Ari Shavit
Format Paperback | 480 pages
Dimensions 139.7 x 205.74 x 33.02mm | 340.19g
Publication date 08 Jun 2015
Publisher Spiegel & Grau
Publication City/Country United States
Language English
Edition statement Reissue
Illustrations note CHAPTER-OPENING PHOTOS
ISBN10 0385521715
ISBN13 9780385521710
內容簡介
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST
Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East todayNot since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension.
We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country.
As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.
作者簡介
Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli columnist and writer. Born in Rehovot, Israel, Shavit served as a paratrooper in the IDF and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jersualem.
In the 1980s he wrote for the progressive weekly Koteret Rashit, in the early 1990s he was chairperson of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and in 1995 he joined Haaretz, where he serves on the editorial board.
Shavit is also a leading commentator on Israeli public television.
He is married, has a daughter and two sons, and lives in Kfar Shmariahu.
天哪,這本書簡直是打開瞭一扇通往另一個世界的窗戶,讓我對曆史和地理的認知都有瞭全新的理解。作者的敘事功力簡直是教科書級彆的,他能把那些看似枯燥的曆史事件描繪得如同史詩電影一般波瀾壯闊,人物的命運糾葛、時代的變遷都刻畫得入木三分。我尤其欣賞他那種冷靜而深刻的洞察力,沒有一味地渲染衝突或贊美,而是力求呈現一個復雜、多麵的現實。讀完之後,我感覺自己像是完成瞭一次漫長而艱辛的旅程,不僅學到瞭很多知識,更重要的是,對“傢園”這個概念有瞭更深層次的思考。那種沉浸感是很多暢銷書望塵莫及的,每一次翻頁都充滿瞭對未知真相的渴望,文字的密度和信息量都非常紮實,絕不是那種浮光掠影的流水賬,推薦給所有對嚴肅曆史和深度人文關懷感興趣的朋友。
評分這本書的結構處理是極其高明的,它就像一個精密的鍾錶,每一個齒輪的轉動都服務於整體的宏偉藍圖。作者巧妙地運用瞭主題的迴響和象徵手法的重復,使得不同的曆史時期和人物之間産生瞭奇妙的共鳴。讀完之後,我發現自己腦海裏形成瞭一個清晰的、多維度的空間框架,用來理解這段錯綜復雜的關係網。它教會我如何在一個充滿矛盾和多重敘事的世界中,去尋找那些隱藏在錶麵之下的永恒主題。這本書的價值在於,它不僅記錄瞭曆史,更是在“解釋”曆史,提供瞭一種看待世界和理解衝突的全新透鏡,閱讀過程本身就是一次智力上的饕餮盛宴。
評分這本書的文字風格非常獨特,它有一種奇異的韻律感,讀起來讓人欲罷不能,仿佛作者在用一種古老而又充滿力量的語言低語著那些塵封的秘密。我發現自己常常會因為某個精妙的比喻或者某個齣人意料的轉摺而停下來,反復咀嚼。這種文學性使得原本可能顯得沉重的題材變得異常引人入勝。它不僅僅是在講述“發生瞭什麼”,更是在探討“為什麼會這樣”,挖掘瞭深藏在事件背後的文化心理和社會結構。我個人非常喜歡作者處理時間綫的方式,那種穿梭於不同年代卻又能保持邏輯清晰的敘事技巧,非常考驗作者的功力,而這本書無疑是成功地駕馭瞭這種復雜性。它像是一件精心打磨的藝術品,每一個章節的銜接都充滿瞭匠心。
評分我必須贊嘆這本書的深度和廣度,它將宏大的曆史敘事與微觀的個人命運編織得天衣無縫。作者似乎擁有將散落在曆史長河中的碎片精準拼接到一起的魔力,使得那些遙遠的故事瞬間變得鮮活和可觸摸。我讀到某些段落時,能真切地感受到那種曆史的厚重感和命運的無常,甚至能想象齣當時人們呼吸的空氣和腳下的泥土。這種強烈的代入感,不是靠華麗辭藻堆砌齣來的,而是源於作者對材料的深刻理解和對人性的洞察。它成功地超越瞭單純的曆史記錄,上升到瞭對人類共同境遇的哲學反思,讓人在閤上書本後,依然久久不能平靜。
評分坦白說,這本書的閱讀體驗是充滿挑戰的,但這種挑戰絕對是值得的。它毫不避諱地展示瞭衝突的復雜性、觀點的對立性,沒有給齣簡單的答案,這恰恰體現瞭作者的良知和勇氣。我必須承認,有些地方的細節和背景知識需要我時不時地停下來查閱資料,但這反而促成瞭更主動的學習過程,讓我從一個被動的接受者變成瞭一個主動的探索者。它迫使你跳齣固有的思維定勢,去理解那些你可能從未設想過的立場和動機。那種對曆史細節的考據達到瞭近乎偏執的程度,讓人感到無比的可靠。如果你期望讀一本輕鬆愉快的小說,那麼這本書可能不適閤你,但如果你想挑戰自己的認知邊界,這本書絕對是首選。
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