Gather the Olives is a dangerous book. That’s because it is about peace in a time when peace in the Holy Land is a faraway, even radical notion. It is about hope and food and community and the way there can be solidarity in sharing a meal. Hence the danger: this book might remind its brave readers of how peace is nourished and how hope can’t be extinguished.
Over the years, Bret Lott—the bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the novel Jewel (an Oprah’s Book Club selection)—has lived and taught in Jerusalem, affording him the opportunity to travel throughout Israel and the surrounding area. Now, in Gather the Olives, this gifted storyteller has brought together a collection of intimate portraits of the people, the food, and the hope for peace to be found in a region ravaged by war and conflict.
Through meditations on such varied matters as an olive oil cooperative run by Israeli and Palestinian women, a non-kosher butcher shop in the middle of upscale—and very kosher—German Colony, the nighttime harvesting of olives by Bedouins in downtown Jerusalem, a traditional Shabbat dinner at an ancient home within the walls of the Old City, a simple yet beautiful plate of fruit in an office in Ramallah, Bret Lott considers how food and the people with whom we share it can bring together hearts and souls in a lasting, meaningful, and peaceful way.
Tabla de materias
A Word
First Morning
Shmuel, Mishkenot, the Judean Hills
On Za’atar
Dining with Linda and Donald
The World and Beit Shemesh
What to Drink: Café Hafuch
Security
Olives in Jerusalem
What to Drink: Tea
Pink Peonies and the Western Wall
Treif
What to Drink: Lemon Mint Water
Cherries on the Golan
Sabbath
Acknowledgments
Sobre el autor
Bret Lott is the author of fourteen books, including the novel Jewel, an Oprah Book Club pick, and Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian. His work has been translated into eight languages and has appeared in many journals and in dozens of anthologies. He has taught at the College of Charleston for nearly forty years and lives outside Charleston with his wife Melanie.
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