Sand-Catcher

"Four Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked with writing a profile on one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. Confident that the old man will be more than willing to go on record about his experiences, the reporters are nonplussed when they are repeatedly, and obscenely, rebuffed by the man and his grandchildren. This living witness to history seems to have no desire to be interviewed, no desire for his memories to be preserved, no desire to talk. As the team's editor-in-chief puts more and more pressure on the young journalists, a battle of wills escalates to ruinous consequences that will leave no one unscathed"--

Summary

A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted.

Product details

• Authors: Omar Khalifah
• Assisted by: Barbara Romaine (Translation)
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.12.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781566897334
• ISBN: 978-1-56689-733-4
• Pages: 173
• Dimensions (packing): 13.7 x 20.6 x 1.8 cm
• Weight (packing): 202 g
• Subjects: Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Politik, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire, Fiction - General, FICTION / Absurdist, Erzählerisches Thema: Identität / Zugehörigkeit, FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / Israel