The Book of Gaza (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Arabiska
Antal sidor
224
Utgivningsdatum
2014-06-05
Förlag
Comma Press
Originalspråk
Arabic
Medarbetare
Seif, Atef Abu (red.)
Dimensioner
198 x 127 x 13 mm
Vikt
159 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781905583645

The Book of Gaza

A City in Short Fiction

av Yusra Al Khatib, Atef Abu Saif, Abdallah Tayeh, Ghareeb Asqalani, Asmaa Al Ghul
Häftad,  Arabiska, 2014-06-05
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Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up. Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and short stories flourished as the city's form of choice. Indeed, to Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as 'the exporter of oranges and short stories'. This anthology brings together some of the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as younger exponents of the form, with ten stories that offer glimpses of life in the Strip that go beyond the global media headlines; stories of anxiety, oppression, and violence, but also of resilience and hope, of what it means to be a Palestinian, and how that identity is continually being reforged; stories of ordinary characters struggling to live with dignity in what many have called 'the largest prison in the world'.
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A welcome reminder of the universality of human relations' - The Guardian; 'Tales that reflect that depth and the variety and universality of the Gazan experience' - The Irish Times

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Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1973. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Birzeit and a Master's degree from the University of Bradford. He received a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of five novels: Shadows in the Memory (1997), The Tale of the Harvest Night (1999), Snowball (2000), The Salty Grape of Paradise (2003, 2006) and A Suspended Life (2014), which was shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arab Fiction (IPAF). He has also published two collections of short stories - Everything is Normal (2004) and Still Life: Stories from Gaza Time (2013) - as well as several books on politics. He is a regular contributor to a number of Palestinian and Arabic newspapers and journals. In 2014 Atef edited The Book of Gaza, as part of Comma's 'City in Short Fiction' series, which featured ten short stories by ten contemporary authors from the Strip. In 2015 Atef was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arab Fiction, also known as the 'Arabic Man Booker'. In 2018 he also won the Katari Prize for Best Arabic Novel (young writers category).

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