A Line in the Sand (Paperback)
by Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef and Marcus Youseff

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In Autumn 1990, during Operation Desert Shield, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert. Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends. This tenuous friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian base; an act to which his friend the soldier was at least a witness and perhaps a willing participant. Weaving poetic drama with a myriad of documentary sources, A Line in the Sand rips the benevolent mask off recent western peacekeeping operations and challenges Canada's long treasured national mythology that it is a nation of quiet diplomats. It asks us to imagine how horrors like these could be perpetrated with our money, in our name and by people much like us.

 
 
 
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  • ISBN-13: 9780889223752
  • ISBN-10: 0889223750
  • Publisher: Talon Books
  • Publish Date: January 1997
  • Page Count: 128

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