{"product_id":"9781399423083","title":"The Lines We Draw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What makes this brilliant, considered book worthwhile is not its breadth but how thoughtful it is.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The book is stunning. He is an extraordinary writer. Such erudition. Wisdom. Humanity. And humour. ' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFergal Keane, BBC News\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Franks spent years as the BBC's Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew and as an Islamophobe - as a tool of competing, malign agendas. He always tried to respond with a journalist's detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Beyond the judgments of others: what does it mean to be Jewish? It was a question he struggled to answer. As a child in 1970s Birmingham, Tim was a practising Jew with hardly any relations or sense of lineage. And so he embarked on a search for his ancestral roots, from Constantinople to Cura�ao, from Amsterdam to the death camps, from Lithuania to Downing Street. Framing each part of his journey through what he has learned as a journalist, Tim discovers ancestors who all speak to a part of the Jewish story: there are the refugees and the risk-takers; the artists, rabbis, soldiers and revolutionaries; there is even a route to the Conservative Party's unlikeliest leader, Benjamin Disraeli. This book is a deeply empathetic memoir which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59659967496524,"sku":"9781399423083","price":16.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9781399423083-fe99fc9067b2f5a9_front.webp?v=1793377809","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/fr\/products\/9781399423083","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}