"Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the
greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel
Prize material" Avraham Burg, Haaretz Who is Adam Dannoun? Until a
few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment - a
consequence of smoking in bed - he thought he knew. But an
encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood,
changed all that. From Mahmoud he learned the terrible truth behind
his birth, a truth withheld from him for fifty-seven years by the
woman he thought was his mother. This discovery leads Adam to
investigate what exactly happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city
of Lydda where he was born: the massacre, the forced march into the
wilderness and the corralling of those citizens who did not flee
into what the Israeli soldiers and their Palestinian captives came
to refer to as the Ghetto. The stories he collects speak of
bravery, ingenuity and resolve in the face of unimaginable
hardship. Saved from the flames that claimed him, they are his
lasting and crucial testament. Translated from the Arabic by
Humphrey Davies
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