| The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion Contributor(s): Musallam, Akram (Author), Hussain, Sawad (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857428934 ISBN-13: 9780857428936 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 9.1" W x 6.1" (0.74 lbs) 132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor. On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his father's amputated leg, dreaming nightly of a haunting scorpion, witnessing the powerful aura of his mountain-lodging aunt. His work in progress is a meditation on absence, loss, and emptiness. He poses deep questions: What does it mean to exist? How can you confirm the existence of a place, a person, a limb? How do we engage with what is no longer there? Absurd at times, raw at others, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion explores Palestinian identity through Akram Musallam's extended metaphors in the hope of transcending the loss of territory and erasure of history. |