Ibtisam Azem The Book of Disappearance recensie, review en informatie over de Palestijnse roman. Op 1 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij And Other Stories de Engelse vertaling van Sifr al-Ikhtifaa de roman uit 2014 van de In New York wonende maar uit Palestina afkomstige schrijfster Ibtisam Azem. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.
Ibtisam Azem The Book of Disappearance recensie en review
- “In this immensely readable novel, Ms. Azem does not resolve for us the calamity of Palestine’s occupation by Israel. But stylishly and with jeweled virtuosity she makes us understand that acts of great and humane imagination will be required, and with this potent book points where and how we must all go.” (Richard Ford)
The Book of Disappearance
- Auteur: Ibtisam Azem (Palestina)
- Soort boek: Palestijnse roman
- Origineel: Sifr al-Ikhtifaa (2014)
- Engelse vertaling: Sinan Antoon
- Uitgever: And Other Sories
- Verschijnt: 1 augustus 2024
- Omvang:
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: € 16,99 / € 11,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van de Palestijnse schrijfster Ibtisam Azem
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 neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet 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.
That 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.