The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion (Hardcover)

An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor. On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his father's amputated leg, dreaming nightly of a haunting scorpion, witnessing the powerful aura of his mountain-lodging aunt. His work in progress is a meditation on absence, loss, and emptiness. He poses deep questions: What does it mean to exist? How can you confirm the existence of a place, a person, a limb? How do we engage with what is no longer there? Absurd at times, raw at others, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion explores Palestinian identity through Akram Musallam's extended metaphors in the hope of transcending the loss of territory and erasure of history.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Arab List
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Akram Musallam
Translators:	Sawad Hussain
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	132
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-893-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-85742-893-4
Barcode:	9780857428936

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