This modern-day crime/psychological thriller is set against a backdrop of intolerance and narrow-mindedness, ambiguous motives and suspicious alibis. Its sinuous plot and complex characters take the reader on a suspense-filled journey of discovery. Sara, born to a Muslim mother and a Jewish father, is a Canadian archaeology student who has moved to Jerusalem. She soon realizes that Israel is a country where questions of faith and religion are inextricably mixed with politics and daily life—all too often creating deeply rooted frontiers and barriers in the souls of the people who live there. As she confronts the two seemingly opposing sides of her family’s origins and wonders how she can she live and love in such a turbulent environment, Sara suddenly goes missing. Her father heads from Montreal to Jerusalem to find out what happened to her. There he joins her friends, professors, and the police officer charged with the investigation in an agonizing waiting game and learns that there were parts of her life she hadn't shared with anyone.
Emmanuel Kattan has a great talent for literature. —Canadian Jewish News
[Emmanuel Kattan] impresses this autumn with his second novel,Paths of Desire, which blends spirituality, a search for identity, and an intriguing detective story set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Complex as the world itself, pure and simple as a father's love for his daughter. . . . Emmanuel Kattan intentionally leaves a lot of questions unanswered in his story, precisely so that readers are not confined to a single interpretation of reality. . . . His approach is more open, even if it frustrates some readers who would like to have every last detail of the story laid out for them—the end is tragic, but as for a guilty party, there is none. —La Pressenewspaper
"Kattan artfully plays with various narrative forms. Through different narrators, lc3
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