Khadra, Yasmina.

The attack / Yasmina Khadra ; translated from the French by John Cullen. - London : William Heinemann, 2006. - 257 pages ; 21 cm.

Translation of "Attentat".

"Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his work, respected and admired by his colleagues and community, he represents integration at its most successful. He has learned to live with the violence and chaos that plague his city, and on the night of a deadly bombing in a local restaurant, he works tirelessly to help the shocked and shattered patients brought to the emergency room. But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn. His wife's body is found among the dead, with massive injuries, the police coldly announce, typical of those found on the bodies of fundamentalist suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife, Sihem, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Dr. Jaafari is torn between cherished memories of their years together and the inescapable realization that the beautiful, intelligent, thoroughly modern woman he loved had a life far removed from the comfortable, assimilated existence they shared."--BOOK JACKET.

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Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Fiction.
Surgeons--Fiction.
Women suicide bombers--Israel--Tel Aviv--Fiction.
Suicide bombings--Israel--Jerusalem--Fiction.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Fiction.
Women suicide bombers--Tel Aviv--Israel--Fiction.


Tel Aviv (Israel)--Fiction.


Literary fiction.
General fiction.