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“This is no life. Sooner or later it must finish.” It is seven a.m. on a spring morning in Jerusalem. Eighteen-year-old Dima trudges through the mud to college and reflects on many things, including her forthcoming marriage to her cousin Faris. Seventeen-year-old Myriam skips school to sit on the tree-lined hill overlooking the city and think about her friend Michael, whose death she still mourns. And Dima’s and Myriam’s families – one Palestinian, one Israeli – go about their ordinary, separate lives; for today is like every other day. Yet in seven hours’ time, everything will have changed. For ever.

As a young man, Alastair McEwen worked at just about every manual job imaginable: factory hand, fisherman, labourer, farmhand, quarryman… He then spent ten years teaching English and history before turning to translation and has since translated novels, non-fiction, essays, articles, poems, feature film scripts and operatic librettos. Alastair has worked with many of Italy’s finest living writers, including Baricco, Busi, Calasso, Eco, Jaeggy and Tabucchi. He lives and works in Milan.