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Publisher's Note: 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 lied for eight years since leaving 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.