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Title: Describing the Past
Author: ZAQTAN GHASSAN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/10/2021
Imprint: SEAGULL BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp a centre of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Israel razed the camp following the Battle of Karameh in 1968 is the setting for Zaqtan s first prose work to appear in English, Describing the Past.
This novella is a coming-of-age story, a tale of youth set amid the death and chaos of war and violence. It is an elegy for the loss of a childhood friend, and for childhood itself, brought back to life here as if dreams and memories have merged into a new state of being, an altered consciousness and way of being in and remembering the world.
Series: The Arab List
ISBN: 9780857423498
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm