A Month by the Sea

A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza
	Cover of Eland Books first edition (2013)
Author	Dervla Murphy
Publisher	Eland Books
Publication date	2013
Pages	258 (first edition)
ISBN	9781906011475
Dewey Decimal	915.31
Preceded by	The Island that Dared
Followed by	Between River and Sea

A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by Eland Books in 2013.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Summary

A Month by the Sea describes Murphy's stay in Palestine during Operation Cast Lead.^[4]^[5]^[6] She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters. A second book followed – Between River and Sea – but she destroyed the material for a third book based on visits to the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan for fear that it might endanger their lives.^[7]

References

^ Tóibín, Colm (4 May 2013). "A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza, by Dervla Murphy". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 October 2022. Her book is a kind of wake-up call to the world
^ Ure, John (7 June 2013). "Rush and shove". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 5749. p. 29. A Month By the Sea is a restless antidote to the easy road of indifference ... a fist-clenched polemic, an octogenarian waving magnificently, not drowning
^ Murphy, Dervla (2013). A month by the sea: encounters in Gaza. Eland. ISBN 9781906011475. Retrieved 12 October 2022 – via British Library.
^ "A Month by the Sea - Dervla Murphy". Eland Books. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
^ Stewart, Bruce. "Dervla Murphy". Ricorso. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
^ Ledger, Sarah (2013). "A Month By the Sea: Encounters in Gaza". FullTilting. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
^ "Dervla Murphy obituary: A ground-breaking and fearless travel writer". The Irish Times. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

External links

A Month by the Sea on Open Library at the Internet Archive

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[times-1] Tóibín, Colm (4 May 2013). "A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza, by Dervla Murphy". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 October 2022. Her book is a kind of wake-up call to the world

[TLS-2] Ure, John (7 June 2013). "Rush and shove". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 5749. p. 29. A Month By the Sea is a restless antidote to the easy road of indifference ... a fist-clenched polemic, an octogenarian waving magnificently, not drowning

[bl-3] Murphy, Dervla (2013). A month by the sea: encounters in Gaza. Eland. ISBN 9781906011475. Retrieved 12 October 2022 – via British Library.

[eland-4] "A Month by the Sea - Dervla Murphy". Eland Books. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

[ricorso-5] Stewart, Bruce. "Dervla Murphy". Ricorso. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

[FullTilting-6] Ledger, Sarah (2013). "A Month By the Sea: Encounters in Gaza". FullTilting. Retrieved 18 October 2022.

[times_obit-7] "Dervla Murphy obituary: A ground-breaking and fearless travel writer". The Irish Times. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

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