Agent: Felicity Rubinstein, Lutyens & Rubinstein. William Sutcliffe, best known for his satirical take on gap year travel, Are You Experienced, is moving into writing for young adults with The Wall and he isn't expecting it to go unnoticed. Throughout this riveting story, which parallels the conflict on Israel's West Bank, adult author Sutcliffe conveys a sense of the moral imperative to bear witness and risk failure in pursuit of justice. For example, a request from his new friends to water their orchard on his side of The Wall leads Joshua to defy parental limits and government strictures. Wall is about the devastating effect of occupation and segregation on ordinary lives. Narrating in first-person present tense, Joshua shares his internal struggles and corresponding actions as his growing awareness of contrasting social realities awaken him to a world of nuance, political complexity, and ethical dilemmas. An enthralling story drawn from a frightening political reality, The. The atmosphere in our house would change as soon as he walked in. This barrier separates his people from those on the other side, who are, according to his stepfather, 'Terrorists! People who want to kill us!' Joshua's discovery of a bulldozed house, a tunnel, and a town so different from his%E2%80%94both in its liveliness and its poverty%E2%80%94along with an act of friendship from a supposed enemy challenge this perspective. Sutcliffe ruled the family with a rod of iron and as the oldest child, Peter would have felt his wrath more than his siblings. He knew that going to the other side of the wall was forbidden, but he doesn’t really know why. Thirteen-year old Joshua's circumscribed life in the newly developed and carefully guarded town of Amarias changes when a search for his soccer ball takes him over The Wall. ‘The Wall’ is about a private rebellion by a boy who barely knows he’s doing it, and the childish innocence of Joshua really touched me.

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