| Describing the Past Contributor(s): Zaqtan, Ghassan (Author), Wilder, Samuel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857423495 ISBN-13: 9780857423498 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016330350 |
| Series: Arab List |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.9" W x 8.1" (0.40 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp--a center of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Israel razed the camp following the Battle of Karameh in 1968--is the setting for Zaqtan's first prose work to appear in English, Describing the Past. This novella is a coming of age story, a tale of youth set amid the death and chaos of war and violence. It is an elegy for the loss of a childhood friend, and for childhood itself, brought back to life here as if dreams and memories have merged into a new state of being, an altered consciousness and way of being in and remembering the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilder, Samuel: - Samuel Wilder is a translator of Arabic literature, a writer, and a student of comparative poetics. Since 2006, he has lived and worked as a literary translator in Cairo and Beirut, and pursued academic work in London and Cambridge. |