“I love the values that the book teach in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Matt Rees. The Bethlehem Murders, astute new work of connected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family and friendship. Propelled by Rees’s dazzling prose, unmistakable Bethlehem Murders target killer and level of injustice that is to be fought on a daily basis wit, takes us to the margins and the centers of real people’s lives in the Middle East, exploring the changes that love and loss created. Omar Yussef a Muslim an older history teacher at girls’ secondary school run by the UN in a refugee camp near to Bethelem turned-detective is a very brilliant idea, who desperately went out of his way to prove the innocence, of his Greek (Christian) friend George Saba, facing imminent execution, for collaborating or assassinating with a leading member of the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla. In one quartet of interlocking stories, Yussef discovers that George has been framed up. In another linked of the stories Omar neighbours find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. Overall, I highly recommend the book for its vision, it is unflinching work on the worst and best that we are capable of that keep people alive in the face of total devastation.
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