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01870aam a2200301 i 4500 001 A5303BF4FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 231204t20232023sa 000 f eng d 020 $a 1776458125 020 $a 9781776458127 035 $a (OCoLC)1411596966 040 $a Z@L $b eng $e rda $c Z@L $d OCLCO $d NDD $d OCLCO $d GZM $d OCLCF $d X$@ $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.3.B715 $b B58 2023 100 1 $a Brown, Andrew $q (Andrew David), $e author. 245 14 $a The bitterness of olives : $b a novel / $c by Andrew Brown. 264 1 $a Cape Town : $b Karavan Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 302 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "'Why can you not be friends anymore?' It was the story of his country, he supposed. Perhaps they could have been friends. Perhaps they were once. The reasons were complex, full of feeling, disappointment, resentment. And, of course, betrayal. This was the Middle East after all. Avi Dahan, a retired detective mourning his beloved wife in Tel Aviv, and Khalid Mansour, a Palestinian doctor confronting the precarious reality of living in Gaza City, are still reeling from the political fallout that jeopardised their delicate friendship. When a mysterious corpse scarred by history and forbidden love shows up in Khalid's emergency room, he reaches out to Avi for help. Though the detective is the only one who might be able to assist, he is the last person on earth to agree..."--Back cover. 650 0 $a South African fiction (English) 651 0 $a Middle East $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Middle East $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726581 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417025208.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5303BF4FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search