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No One Knows Their Blood Type

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Shortlisted for the 2025 First Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association
>No One Knows Their Blood Type
is a novel of identity, belonging, and conflicting truths--of stories, secrets, songs, rumors, and lies. On the day that her father dies, Jumana makes a discovery about her blood type. Hers could not have been inherited from her father--the father she sometimes longed for, but always despised. This extraordinary novel of Palestine centers its narrative not on the battlefield of history, but on how women live every day and the colonial context of their embodied lives. With humor and exhilarating inventiveness, it asks: why aren't questions of love, friendship, parenthood, and desire at the core of our conversations about liberty and freedom? How would this transform our ideas of resistance?


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Born in 1980 in Lebanon, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is an Arabic-language Palestinian novelist, poet, and children's book author. She edited The Book of Ramallah, an anthology of short stories published by Comma Press in 2021. Her children's book A Blue Pond of Questions was translated into English and published by Penny Candy Books. An English translation of her poetry appeared from Milkweed Editions under the title You Can Be the Last Leaf, translated by Fady Joudah and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.


Product details

Authors Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Assisted by Hazem Jamjoum (Translation)
Publisher Cleveland State University Poetry Center
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 01.10.2024
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature
 
EAN 9798989708413
ISBN 979-8-9897084-1-3
Pages 150
Dimensions (packing) 16 x 20 x 1.2 cm
Weight (packing) 226 g
 
Subjects FICTION / Family Life
FICTION / Literary
Fiction - General
FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / General
 

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