Results narrated by "Michelle Cullum" in All categories

Everybody agrees that Mark Twain was funny. This is one of the very few things about which everybody agrees, which ought to make a thinking person suspicious, and this book sets out to spoil the agreement by asking a rude question: why? Laughter looks like the most innocent thing in the world. It is not. A joke is a small machine for slipping a truth past a guard who would have stopped a sermon at the door. Twain understood this better than almost anyone before him and most who have come since.

1993. In this rollicking take on modern diplomacy, a Norwegian social scientist and his diplomat wife are determined to try a new tactic to break the long-standing deadlock of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A secret back channel in Norway leads to unexpected breakthroughs as negotiators find common ground. When the political becomes personal, relationships are forged that offer a chance to alter the course of history.