Before We Say Good Bye

Before We Say Good Bye

"This is no life. Sooner or later it must finish."

It is seven a.m. on a spring morning in Jerusalem. Eighteen-year-old Dima trudges through the mud to college and reflects on many things, including her forthcoming marriage to her cousin Faris. Seventeen-year-old Myriam skips school to sit on the tree-lined hill overlooking the city and think about her friend Michael, whose death she still mourns. And Dima's and Myriam's families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - go about their ordinary, separate lives; for today is like every other day. Yet in seven hours' time, everything will have changed. For ever.

Gabriella Ambrosio is an Italian journalist and copywriter, a former professor and currently president of an international advertising agency in Italy. She has written several successful essays and recently contributed to Freedom, a short-story anthology celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but Before We Say Goodbye (first published in Italy as Prima di Lasciarsi) is her first novel. It won an Italian first novel award at the Festival du Premier Romance in Chambery, France and is now also available in both Arabic and Hebrew. Gabriella lives with her husband and two children in Rome.

Before We Say Good Bye
Walker Books
Author: Gabriella Ambrosio
ISBN: 9781406325041
Price: $16.95