In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels
Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the
streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the
relationships, the houses, and the businesses that were and now are
cornerstones of the city and his community.
This is, in many ways, an elegy. Green spaces - gardens and hills
crowned with olive trees - have been replaced by tower blocks and
concrete lots; the occupation and the settlements have further
entrenched themselves in every aspect of movement-from the roads that
can and cannot be used to the bureaucratic barriers that prevent people
leaving the West Bank. The culture of the city has also shifted with
Islam taking a more prominent role in people's everyday and political
lives and the geography of the city.
As he grapples with ageing and the failures of the resistance, Shehadeh
notes the ways that the past still invades the presence from the ruins
of the compound that was Yasser Arafat's home to the power of emigrated
families to reshape neighbourhoods by selling their long-abandoned
homes.
This is perhaps Raja Shehadeh's most painfully visceral book.
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