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Book Description: A brilliant and moving evocation of the rhythms of life (and the darker shadows below it) in a working class quarter of the world s most fascinating and divided city. In the tradition of the literature of place perfected by such expatriate writers as M. F. K. Fisher and Isak Dinesen, Adina Hoffman s House of Windows compellingly evokes Jerusalem through the prism of the neighborhood where she has lived for eight years since moving from the United States. In a series of interlocking sketches and intimate portraits of the inhabitants of Musrara, a neighborhood on the border of the western (Jewish) and eastern (Arab) sides of the city a Sephardic grocer, an aging civil servant, a Palestinian gardener, a nosy mother of ten Hoffman constructs an intimate view of Jerusalem life that will be a revelation to American readers bombarded with politics and headlines. By focusing on the day to day pace of existence in this close knit community, she provides a rich, precise, and refreshingly honest portrait of a city often reduced to cliche and takes in the larger question of identity and exile that haunts Jews and Palestinians alike.

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