This absorbingly detailed realistic novel - its veteran Palestinian
author's first to reach English translation - offers in
impressively compact form a panorama of the diaspora his country
experienced during the watershed year of 1948, when Zionist
military forces defeated a (hastily assembled) Arab Liberation
Army. Yakhlif focuses on the village of Samakh, deftly juxtaposing
accounts of rudimentary military "training and reconnaissance"
(especially as recounted in the journal kept by an Iraqi mercenary
soldier) with vignettes of village life dominated by ingenious
symbolic foreshadowing (a cow bitten by a rabid dog; "two rams
butting one another with their heads"). A fine, bitter, bracing
work, distinguished by precise construction and resonant
understatement. (Kirkus Reviews)
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the
once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at
home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native
lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging
Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary
literature in translation or original English.
A novel about the most catastrophic year in Palestinian history.
Yakhlif tenderly gathers all the town folk, the soldiers of the
beleaguered army, the animals and the natural world into his tale,
which makes it all the more powerful a lament for a world that is
no more.
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