Before we Say Goodbye - Gabriella Ambrosio

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Today's book is a sad but amazing and touching story , it is a fictional based story on the incident of a 17yr old Suicide bomber Palestine girl.

               
                                                          Before We Say Goodbye

                  Synopsis of : Before we say Goodbye - Gabriella Ambrosio - August 2010

The book is based on a true story of a suicide bombing which was committed by a seventeen year-old Palestinian girl from the Deheisha refugee camp at a supermarket in Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem in 2002. The book narrates the final hours in the lives of the bomber and her victims – a seventeen year-old girl from Jerusalem and the security guard whose intervention, with his own body, saved the lives of the rest of the people at the busy market on that Passover Eve. The story begins at seven o’clock in the morning on the day of the attack and ends with the horrifying explosion. Despite the very short time span – a mere seven hours - seen from the points of view of the different characters, the book tries to portray the complex reality between Israel and Palestine.The book was published in Italian in 2004 by Nutrimenti Publishers, Italy.After receiving rave reviews all over Italy, the book became a textbook in Italian high schools as well as in several universities around the world.In 2008 the book was translated into Hebrew and published by Pardes publishing house in Israel, and also translated into Arabic and published in the Palestinian territories and other Middle Eastern countries. The book has been employed by Israeli colleges and human rights organizations working in Israel and Palestine as an educational tool.It has also won the prize for Italian novels at the Festival du Premier Romance in Chambéry France.

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