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Describing the Past de Ghassan Zaqtan

Describing the Past

Autor Ghassan Zaqtan Traducere de Samuel Wilder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2027
Three survivors circle a village, a death, and one another.

When he was seven years old, the acclaimed Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp--a fierce center of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Israel razed it following the Battle of Karameh in 1968--serves as the setting for Zaqtan's first prose work to appear in English, Describing the Past.

This novella is a singular coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of historic upheaval. It stands as an elegy for the loss of a childhood friend, and for childhood itself, brought back to life here as if dreams and memories have seamlessly merged. The result is a new state of being--an altered consciousness and a profound way of remembering the world.

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ISBN-13: 9781803097602
ISBN-10: 1803097604
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Seagull Books

Notă biografică

Ghassan Zaqtan is a Palestinian poet, novelist, and editor born near Bethlehem. He has lived in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and writes primarily in Arabic. Across poetry and fiction, his work attends to landscape, displacement, memory, and Palestinian experience.

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Foreword
                Fady Joudah
Describing the Past
 
 

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“To call the novella haunting would be insufficient. The prose has a rare, fugitive quality: a narration that seems to envy the air, envy the breath of the other, and which knows in contrast its own confinement. . . . This novella should be commended both for its role in the translation of Zaqtan’s oeuvre into English and as the first title in a new series for Arabic literature at Seagull Books, edited by the scholar and translator Hosam Aboul-Ela. . . . In Wilder’s English, Zaqtan’s images are vital and distinctively restless; the prose has a bold simplicity that never settles into familiarity.”

“A taut, perfect object, beautifully crafted (and translated by Wilder). Little is clear and there are few answers, but the ultimate impression is one of controlled gorgeousness. . . . Seeing Zaqtan’s novella emerging from this vibrant publishing house, and in such distinctive and elegant form, is an optimistic act of decolonization from a book trade centered on the UK and US. If Seagull’s vigorous list of Arab authors is indicative, there should be plenty more to come.”