Beyond the Book: Background information when reading The Distance Between Us

Beyond the Book

This article relates to The Distance Between Us

Hamilton dedicates her book to Kevin Carter, the Pulitzer-winning photograph particularly known for the photograph that personified the Sudanese famine - a tiny girl squatting on scrawny knees, head drooping heavily with a vulture lurking behind. Two months after collecting his award Carter attached a garden hose to his exhaust pipe and gassed himself.  The note beside him on the passenger seat read 'The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist'.

For a summarized history of the region try these links, each covers broadly the same events, but each with their own subtle differences in interpretation.

• A reproduction of a booklet written by 'Jews For Justice'
• Mideastweb.org
• PalestineHistory.com

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This article relates to The Distance Between Us. It first ran in the October 19, 2005 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.