You lend me your look
You lend me your gaze (French: Une Bouteille dans la mer de Gaza ) is a youth novel by Valérie Zenatti from 2005, which addresses the Middle East conflict . The friendship between two young people from Jerusalem and Gaza is depicted .
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The 17-year-old Tal lives in the Jewish part of Jerusalem. Suicide attacks are a sad part of everyday life in this city. Yet Tal is deeply shaken when a bomb explodes in a café very close to her home. She wonders why the hatred between Israel and Palestine never ends. Finally she writes a long letter about herself, her hopes and dreams - and puts it in a bottle. Her brother, who is stationed in the Gaza Strip, throws the bottle into the sea for her. After a long wait, she receives an email: from twenty-year-old Gazaman who lives in the Gaza Strip.
Awards
The book has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize and the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for books for children and young people . In 2011 the book won the 2011 Prix des lycéens autrichiens .
The author
The author Valérie Zenatti, born in Nice in 1970 , spent her youth in Israel. Like all young men and women, she did her military service there. Today she lives as an author in Paris and translates books from Hebrew. Her youth novels are shaped by her experiences of Israeli life. "Do you lend me your look" is her first book translated into German. The original edition was published in 2005 by l'école des loisirs, Paris, under the title “Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza”.
literature
- Will you lend me your look , Cecilie Dressler Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Hardcover 2006, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-7915-2579-2
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supporting documents
- ^ Education Directorate Salzburg: Literature Prize. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .