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Kashua, Sayed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080214845X ISBN 13: 9780802148452

Verlag: Grove Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

An Arab Israeli man, back in Jerusalem to see his estranged father, narrates "a novel about just how sad, fractured and tricky cultural identity can get" (Seattle Times).

Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family's side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally displaced, he feels more alienated from his life than ever.

Sitting by his father's hospital bed, the memoirist begins to remember long-buried traumas, the root causes of his fallout with his family, the catalyst for his marriage and its recent dissolution, and his strained relationships with his children—all of which is strangely linked to a short story he published years ago about a young girl named Palestine. As he plunges deeper into his memory and recounts the history of his land and his love, the lines between truth and lies, fact and fiction become increasingly blurred.

Hailed as "an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight" (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein Award–winning writer Sayed Kashua presents a masterful novel about the stories Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves about their lives and their histories.

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SAYED KASHUA is the author of the novels Dancing Arabs, Let It Be Morning, which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Second Person Singular, winner of the prestigious Bemstein Prize, and Native. He writes a weekly column for Haaretz and is the creator of the prize-winning sitcom Arab Labor. Now living in the United States with his family, he teaches at the University of Illinois.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080214845X
• ISBN 13: 9780802148452
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar