Real Time

Set in contemporary Israel, this powerful novel is narrated in real time by many voices: Sixteen-year-old Thomas, from Berlin, seeking answers to questions about his grandfather, a Nazi officer in World War II. Vera from Odessa, reclaiming her Jewish heritage. Baruch Ben Tov, a Holocaust survivor. Sameh Laham, illegally employed at a diner. His boss. Sameh's friend Omar. A Palestinian doctor in an Israeli hospital. A mother. A soldier.
A newscaster . . .

Minute by minute, hour by hour, these lives and many others unfold--and then intersect in one violent moment on a highway outside Jerusalem. Each is drastically and irrevocably changed. What do secrets, hopes, dreams, and future plans mean after such a catastrophe? Can what was destroyed be made whole again?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 07/24/2006
ISBN: 9780618691746
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/17/2006 pg. 160
Kliatt 11/01/2006 pg. 20

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 82403 / Real Time
Reading Level: 4.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 8