Two girls share a connection while separating them all: history, religion, nationality. Geography alone makes the loved ones: they live within ten kilometers of each other, one in Palestine, one in Israel. Galit, 12 years and Mervet, 13, started a match to try to get to know and understand the impossible situation of two countries: why a distance of 10 km is it insurmountable? Why meet physically is there for the event, almost a feat?
Their two peoples closer through their myths, their language (the word thank you is almost identical in both Hebrew and Arabic ...), the same holy city. But intolerance, hatred, resentment increases from generation to generation.
And growing up, the two girls they keep this spirit of openness? this healthy curiosity about the other?
Exchange is true, fresh, naive and rebellious, seeking to correct misunderstandings, but they are not yet obvious to accept.
This book has the deserves to make a first glance, accessible and sensitive to a conflict that has lasted six decades and does not seem ready to find a way out.
and Galit Fink Mervet AKRAM
Sha'ban 123 pages, coll. Folio Junior - 5,90 €
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