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Dinner at the Center of the Earth

The new novel from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES --- a political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret cell, his only companion the guard who has watched over him for a dozen years. Meanwhile, the prisoner’s arch nemesis --- The General, Israel’s most controversial leader --- lies dying in a hospital bed. From Israel and Gaza to Paris, Italy and America, Englander provides a kaleidoscopic view of the prisoner’s unlikely journey to his cell.

DINNER AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is a tour de force --- a powerful, wryly funny, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, and the man who improbably lands at the center of it all.

Audiobook available, read by Mark Bramhall

Dinner at the Center of the Earth
by Nathan Englander