Canaan Barred
Release Date: April 2010 – Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-965-7504-04-8 112 pages
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“I believe I would have killed Ahmed. Oh why did they prevent me? Yet…I know it is not him. He cannot be held to blame. We are produced by a culture. A culture is fabricated from the years, the centuries of crime which preceded it. I too am guilty. Maybe this is also the reason I am locked up here behind these walls. I am guilty of believing in an ideal. It was a crime for my culture to instill those ideals within my soul.”
A contemporary twist on the classic tale of forbidden love, Canaan Barred is the story of one man’s desperate attempt to find meaning in a world where prejudice, bigotry, and hatred conspire to destroy his humanity.
By way of intensely personal and haunting images – visions both dark and futile, yet also poignantly hopeful – the reader is swept through the story of a great love, an emotional tempest complicated by the struggle for survival of two proud peoples.
On a deeper, more symbolic level, Canaan Barred is a novel about escaping the bondage of historical and collective hate. It is a book about peace and individual freedom, an allegorical and profound love story. When considering the current situation in the Middle-East today, it could possibly be even a true tale.
In an age when religious and political fundamentalism of all kinds is proliferating – Canaan Barred courageously argues for human dignity, love, tolerance, and the sanctity of Life.
About The Author
Philip Hyams is a Canadian/Israeli publisher. novelist, artist, journalist and film producer. Born in 1954 at Montreal, Que. Canada – Mr. Hyams has also lived in London, Amsterdam, Montreal and Toronto. His writing has been published in more than 250 print and electronic journals around the world from the U.S and Britain to Sweden and South Africa.
While living in Europe he performed his work under the auspices of the internationally known One World Poetry Organization along-side poets such as Jack Micheline and Gregory Corso and as an artist was very early on affiliated with the “CopyArt” movement producing graphic works on large-format XEROX color copy installations. He has also been a journalist for the Israeli edition of Internet World and an award-winning documentary health and lifestyle film producer and broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
