personal narratives, israeli

Ari Folman's life becomes a nightmare when he sets out to reconstruct the events of one night twenty years earlier when, as an Israeli soldier in September 1982, he witnessed the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians by Christian militia members at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.

Contains the correspondence between two girls, one an Israeli and the other a Palestinian, from August 1988 until their meeting in October 1991. Includes a brief history of their two peoples.