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The Book of Gaza - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)
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The Book of Gaza - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Reading the City
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Loot Price R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
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Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza
had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing
their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand,
invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to
Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up.
Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and
short stories flourished as the city's form of choice. Indeed, to
Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as 'the exporter of
oranges and short stories'. This anthology brings together some of
the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as
younger exponents of the form, with ten stories that offer glimpses
of life in the Strip that go beyond the global media headlines;
stories of anxiety, oppression, and violence, but also of
resilience and hope, of what it means to be a Palestinian, and how
that identity is continually being reforged; stories of ordinary
characters struggling to live with dignity in what many have called
'the largest prison in the world'.
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