The Silencer (Emerging Voices Series)

By Simon Louvish

Joe Dekel is sent to cover an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in New York, he is waylaid by an earnest young American Jew who informs him he is Dekel's silencer, representing a right-wing blacklister to keep pro-Palestinian literature from being published in the USA.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566561086
• ISBN13: 9781566561082
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Lonliness of Clear Sight

I am not a fast reader, it took me three nights to read this book which is a record for me. Although written as a thriller this book was more a political, rather simply a human commentary to me, and perhaps the thriller style helps in lending the athmosphere of tension, violence,danger and restlessness needed. I would say that this book does much to emphasise what many of us believe, that what is happening in Palestine and Israel today is a political affair and not a religious one, and Mr. Louvish does his people much good by writing because he prevents us from stereotyping all Israelis. This is where the irony in his and many others' failing to find publishers lies. Written in 1998, it reads as though it were written today, and that is the tragedy, yet perhaps it is also a thin, faint, ray of hope. I for one am grateful for this book, sorry I didn't discover it earlier and eagre to read the rest of his writing on the subject, including those books I hope will soon be featured on your site some of which he refers to in this book.