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The Words of My Father (Hardcover)
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The Words of My Father (Hardcover)
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List price R522
Loot Price R447
Discovery Miles 4 470
You Save R75 (14%)
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In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for
centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games,
school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards.
Everything changes when the Second Intifada erupts and soldiers
occupy the family home. Yousef's father refuses to flee and risk
losing the house forever, so the army keeps the family in a state
of virtual imprisonment. Yousef struggles to understand how his
father can be so committed to peaceful co-existence that he
welcomes the occupying Israeli soldiers as `guests', even in the
face of unfair and humiliating treatment. Over time, Yousef learns
how to endure his new life in captivity - but he can't anticipate
that a bullet is about to transform his future in an instant. Shot
by an Israeli soldier at the age of fifteen, and taken to hospital
in Tel Aviv, Yousef slowly and painstakingly confronts the
paralysis of his lower body. Under the ceaseless care of Israeli
medical professionals, he gains a new perspective on the value of
co-existence. These transformative experiences set Yousef on a
difficult new path that leads him to learn to embody his father's
philosophy, and spread a message of co-existence in a world of
deep-set sectarianism. The Words of My Father is a moving
coming-of-age story about survival, tolerance and hope.
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