With soaring vision and profound intelligence, Robert Stone has written a harrowing, breathtaking novel about our desperate search, at any price, for the consolation of redemptionaand about the people who are all too willing to provide it. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a mind-altering pilgrimage, a race through riot-filled Jerusalem streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze, a desperate attempt to prevent a bomb from detonating beneath the Temple MountaDamascus Gate is an exhilarating journey through the moral and religious ambiguities that haunt the holiest of cities and its seekers, cynics, hustlers, and madmen. Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, Damascus Gate is simultaneously the story of a man's search for truthaor some version of itaand the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith.One of them, an English speaker, found himself sitting next to Helen Henderson. a Out in the ... In the cara#39;s overhead light, the sheets seemed im- printed with a building plan of some kind. A series ... A vehicle approached, a Border Police jeep.
Title | : | Damascus Gate |
Author | : | Robert Stone |
Publisher | : | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2013-08-16 |
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