I Saw Ramallah - Hardcover

Barghouti, Mourid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747569274 ISBN 13: 9780747569275

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

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Críticas:

'The most eloquent statement in English of what it is like to be a Palestinian today.' Times Literary Supplement 'An important literary event...One of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement that we now have.' Edward Said 'The passionate pain of exile, recounted at the end of a day by a true poet.' John Berger

Reseña del editor:

In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many Palestinians living abroad, was denied entry into his homeland. Thirty years later, he was finally allowed to visit Ramallah, the city he had grown up in. A rickety wooden bridge over a dried up river connects the West Bank to Jordan. It is the very same bridge Barghouti had crossed little knowing that he would not be able return. "I Saw Ramallah", his extraordinarily beautiful account of homecoming, begins at this crossing, filled with its ironies and heartaches. In half bemusement, half joy, Barghouti journeys through Ramallah, keenly aware that the city he had left barely resembles the present-day city scarred by the Occupation - and he discovers in this displacement, that the events of 1967 have made him permanently homeless. Lyrical and impassioned, "I Saw Ramallah" is a profound reflection and lamentation on the conditions of exile.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0747569274
• ISBN 13: 9780747569275
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208