'' Prima di Lasciarsi '' ( '' Before We Say Goodbye '' ) , her first novel , is based on the true story of the Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing in Jerusalem , committed by Ayat al-Akhras , a seventeen-year-old Palestinian girl from the Dheisheh refugee camp . The book narrates the final hours in the lives of the bomber and her victims – a seventeen-year-old girl from Jerusalem and the security guard whose intervention saved the lives of the rest of the people at the busy market on that Passover Eve . The story begins at seven o'clock in the morning on the day of the attack and ends with the horrifying explosion . Despite the very short time span – seven hours – seen from the points of view of the different characters , the book tries to portray the complex reality between Israel and Palestine
Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing
Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing
Gabriella Ambrosio