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A Song of Ilan tells the story of an American raised Israeli, who, while in Tel Aviv for his required military service, shoots a female suicide bomber and becomes a local hero. Racked by irresolvable, and, to his view, inappropriate guilt over the shooting, he returns to the NYC where he becomes a stockbroker and mountaineer. At the time of the novel's telling, Ilan has married a translator, whose translation of the Book of Psalms paints God as an unlikable, if not unbelievable figure. Ilan, obsessed with his wife's translations, begins reliving the shooting of the Palestinian woman, and ultimately decides to bomb the 4 train.
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