The Book of Disappearance [electronic resource] : A Novel
Ibtisam Azem2019
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What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would
happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in
Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight
hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the
story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who
converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he
disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist struggling to
understand the traumatic event. Through these perspectives, the novel stages a
confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical
of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, but nevertheless believes
in Israel’s project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s
memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland.
Ariel’s search for clues to the secret of the coll...
Main title:
The Book of Disappearance [electronic resource] : A Novel / Ibtisam Azem
Author:
Ibtisam Azem, Author
Imprint:
Syracuse United States : Syracuse University Press, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780815654834
Language:
English
BRN:
528735
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