Describing the Past (Hardcover)

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 center 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.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2016
Authors:	Ghassan Zaqtan
Dimensions:	135 x 213 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-349-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-85742-349-5
Barcode:	9780857423498

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