Ibtisam Azem
The Book of Disappearance
The Book of Disappearance
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Alaa and Ariel are haunted by their grandmother's memories of displacement and become refugees in their homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, a liberal Zionist, searches for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance, revealing the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question.
Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 01 August 2024
Publisher: And Other Stories
Alaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa's neighbor and friend, is a liberal Zionist who is critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza but remains faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance. This search, and Ariel's reactions to it, intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. Between the stories of Alaa and Ariel are the people of Jaffa and Tel Aviv – café patrons, radio commentators, flower-cutters – against whose ordinary lives these fissures and questions play out.
Speculative and haunting, this is an exceptional exercise in memory-making and psycho-geography. The International Booker Prize 2025 Judges
Weight: 188g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781916751026
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