What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day?
What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling
questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set in
contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all
their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds
through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who
converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind
when he disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist
struggling to understand the traumatic event. Through these
perspectives, the novel stages a confrontation between two
memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical of the
military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, but nevertheless
believes in Israel's project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted
by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and
becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel's search for clues to the
secret of the collective disappearance and his reaction to it
intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian
question. The Book of Disappearance grapples with both the memory
of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a
narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon's translation of the
critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the
complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel.
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