Book cover Illustration

This book cover illustration blends symbolism and tension to reflect a story of divided families, political conflict, and a race to prevent renewed violence. The novel’s themes inspired a hand-crafted editorial illustration, created through traditional pen and ink sketching and texturing to deliver impactful publishing design.
The pen and ink illustration depicts an olive branch tree which unfurls into barbed wire. This image is symbolises the ideals of freedom and the heavy weight of oppression.

The novel, written by Carl Gibeily, tells the story about the construction of the West Bank wall which sets two families on a collision course. After an Israeli teenager dies at the hands of a Palestinian youth in murky circumstances, journalist Aron Lunzer—an uneasy voice within right-wing media—is pushed to investigate the gaps in the official story. His search pulls him into networks of Jewish and Islamic extremists and to a sharp-tongued Lebanese Christian who evokes memories of his late wife. Together, they piece together the events behind the two deaths and race to halt a planned suicide attack that could ignite a third intifada, revealing the devastating impact of dividing walls.