Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir
Autor Tareq Baconien Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2026
Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost
'Fire in Every Direction is a marvel'
Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
'Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful'
Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King
'A deeply inspiring and absorbing read'
Mark Gevisser, author of The Pink Line
'Spending time with the real people in Fire in Every Direction is a delight'
Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman
Both a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents, Fire in Every Direction balances humour and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness - desire and resistance - is passed down through generations.
In 1948, Tareq's grandmother would flee Haifa as Zionist militias seized the city. In the late 1970s, she would flee Beirut with her daughter, as the country was in the throes of a civil war. In Amman, the family would eventually obtain the comfort of middle-class life - still, a young Tareq would feel trapped: by cultures of silence, by a sense of not belonging, by his own growing awareness that he is in love with his childhood best friend, Ramzi.
After relocating to London, Tareq hopes to put aside his past. Yet as the Iraq War radicalizes young people around the world towards anti-war protest, history comes back to him.
Living between the region and London, Tareq fits in neither and feels alienated from both. Queerness is policed back in Amman, just as his Palestinian-ness is abroad. These gradual estrangements escalate, forcing him to grapple with what it means to live in liminal spaces, and rethink the meaning of home.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399754040
ISBN-10: 1399754041
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 24 mm
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399754041
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 24 mm
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
In Fire in Every Direction, we not only see how the oppression of a people has affected one Palestinian family, but how oppression in all forms - colonialism, patriarchy, homophobia, to name a few - creates dishonesty and masks within all of us. Tareq Baconi offers us a love letter, a blueprint on how to craft a life that questions the present, dreaming a better future in the process. By reading this beautifully honest memoir, we can learn to shed what must be shed in order to regain an allegiance toward justice, toward freedom, toward a liberation for all. Baconi has shown me that revolutions begin in the self; I am forever changed after reading this book
In this moving and generous memoir, Tareq Baconi refuses to separate the story of sexual identity from the story of political commitment, and in so doing models a way to see our personal struggles as intertwined with our collective ones. Fire in Every Direction is a beautiful account of one man's confrontation with the histories, silences, and desires - both communal and private - that have made him who he is.
In a time when it can feel like language has been stripped of meaning and words have lost all power, Fire in Every Direction arrives as an affirmation and a refusal of silence. Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful, every page of this book is guided by Tareq Baconi's fierce intelligence and a tenderness that this world does not deserve. You do not read this book to repair your heart, you read this book to understand the fissures
A powerful memoir of queer and Palestinian reckoning. Tareq Baconi creates "a gaze of our own" by bringing his open heart to a tough confrontation with histories both intimate and diasporic. An important contribution to our many literatures.
With passion, sincerity, and wit, Baconi writes about the world he grew up in, about a time and place long gone, revivified in these beautiful pages. Spending time with the real people in Fire in Every Direction is a delight. Read this book!
With eloquence, passion, and insight, Tareq Baconi weaves his personal story as a queer kid growing up in the refugee community in Jordan, into the larger narrative of his family's dislocation, and the Palestinian struggle. In so doing, he gives new meaning to the concept of liberation, personal and political. Fire in Every Direction is a primarily a love story: about how one learns to overcome loss - of a homeland, of a beloved - due to the interventions of authorities, be they parents or conquerors. It is a deeply inspiring and absorbing read, especially in these times.
I love this book. It is beautifully woven and registers acutely at the intimate and global levels of life
It is difficult to read Tareq Baconi's intimate, mesmerizing meditation on dispossession and not think about how much safer it would have been to not write a book like this, to leave a dangerous past undisturbed. In stunning detail - both physical and emotional - Baconi traces a story of personal and communal alienation, longing, and liberation. Drawn here in beautiful, crushing clarity is an account of what systems of degradation, fear and theft can do to a person, a society, a world. That Baconi has managed to do all this in a memoir that still feels so firmly rooted in love is a marvel.
Outstanding . . . I found the blend between the personal and political to be very cleverly achieved. A brilliant book.
At its heart, this is a love story spanning more than seventy years. Shot through with grief and longing, it is also a painstaking excavation of the past and a hopeful vision of a future, free from the narratives imposed upon them by others
Baconi has achieved the rarest of feats by using the queer Arab lens to tell the story of migration, displacement, colonialism and Western imperialism. And only through this alternative eye is a dissection of our privileges, flaws and sacrifices truly possible
In this moving and generous memoir, Tareq Baconi refuses to separate the story of sexual identity from the story of political commitment, and in so doing models a way to see our personal struggles as intertwined with our collective ones. Fire in Every Direction is a beautiful account of one man's confrontation with the histories, silences, and desires - both communal and private - that have made him who he is.
In a time when it can feel like language has been stripped of meaning and words have lost all power, Fire in Every Direction arrives as an affirmation and a refusal of silence. Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful, every page of this book is guided by Tareq Baconi's fierce intelligence and a tenderness that this world does not deserve. You do not read this book to repair your heart, you read this book to understand the fissures
A powerful memoir of queer and Palestinian reckoning. Tareq Baconi creates "a gaze of our own" by bringing his open heart to a tough confrontation with histories both intimate and diasporic. An important contribution to our many literatures.
With passion, sincerity, and wit, Baconi writes about the world he grew up in, about a time and place long gone, revivified in these beautiful pages. Spending time with the real people in Fire in Every Direction is a delight. Read this book!
With eloquence, passion, and insight, Tareq Baconi weaves his personal story as a queer kid growing up in the refugee community in Jordan, into the larger narrative of his family's dislocation, and the Palestinian struggle. In so doing, he gives new meaning to the concept of liberation, personal and political. Fire in Every Direction is a primarily a love story: about how one learns to overcome loss - of a homeland, of a beloved - due to the interventions of authorities, be they parents or conquerors. It is a deeply inspiring and absorbing read, especially in these times.
I love this book. It is beautifully woven and registers acutely at the intimate and global levels of life
It is difficult to read Tareq Baconi's intimate, mesmerizing meditation on dispossession and not think about how much safer it would have been to not write a book like this, to leave a dangerous past undisturbed. In stunning detail - both physical and emotional - Baconi traces a story of personal and communal alienation, longing, and liberation. Drawn here in beautiful, crushing clarity is an account of what systems of degradation, fear and theft can do to a person, a society, a world. That Baconi has managed to do all this in a memoir that still feels so firmly rooted in love is a marvel.
Outstanding . . . I found the blend between the personal and political to be very cleverly achieved. A brilliant book.
At its heart, this is a love story spanning more than seventy years. Shot through with grief and longing, it is also a painstaking excavation of the past and a hopeful vision of a future, free from the narratives imposed upon them by others
Baconi has achieved the rarest of feats by using the queer Arab lens to tell the story of migration, displacement, colonialism and Western imperialism. And only through this alternative eye is a dissection of our privileges, flaws and sacrifices truly possible