Dinner At The Center Of The Earth: A Novel by Nathan Englander non-media A chain of events disrupts

A chain of events disrupts the lives of the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present

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Dinner At The Center Of The Earth: A Novel by Nathan Englander non-media A chain of events disruptsA prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence. From these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait of