A young American, referred to as Z, is in Paris, on the run and afraid. Then there's Joshua, young, confident and Canadian, learning to sail in Berlin thanks to his new friendship with the wealthy Farid. What is the connection between Joshua and Z? And what does it all have to do with the 'General,' the great and powerful Israeli who lies in a coma for years on end?
I very much enjoyed this novel, a little bit of espionage and a lot of layered meditation on imprisonment (Israeli, Palestinian, and maybe American, too), loyalty, and sacrifice. I was oddly thrilled to find a fictional treatment of Ariel Sharon's long twilight, a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction scenario that always seemed made for storytelling. Different in tone from the equally enjoyable What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank; both works skillfully master a feeling of playful seriousness.
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