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Tom Paulin, Independent
‘Barghouti manages to be temperate, fair-minded, resilient and uniquely sad. This is an impressive addition to the literature of exile’
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'The most eloquent statement in English of what it is like to be a Palestinian today' Times Literary Supplement 'An important literary event One of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement that we now have' Edward Said 'The passionate pain of exile, recounted at the end of a day by a true poet' John Berger 'Beautifully translated by Ahdaf Soueif The graceful cadences of Soueif's prose catch the ontological trauma of being a displaced person Outside any political faction, Barghouti manages to be temperate, fair-minded, resilient and uniquely sad. This is an impressive addition to the literature of exile' Tom Paulin, Independent
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"It is enough for a person to go through the first experience of uprooting to become uprooted forever." This is a classic book on the experience of displacement and exile. It is lyrical, empassioned and powerful; the literary equivalent to Schumann's liede. To those media reviewers who saw only the narrow political spectrum, we might ask, in Barghouti's words, "can he notice my humanity?" I hope he receives the Nobel prize for literature.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a book of integrity and eloquent sincerity. This, more than any academic treatise, is a book that left me feeling angry and ashamed of the complicity of my country in the human tradegy that has been inflicted on the Palestian people.
This is a unique book that should be required reading for every secondary school child in this country, to sit alongside such titles as the "Diary of Ann Frank" as a testament to mans inhumanity to man.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this book offers a unique chance to learn of the personal experience side of the palestinian exodus, it is a highly personal account of many events, and holds vivid memories for the reader, and although the books is translated from arabic, it has lost non of its readability.
the book is not as political as some would want, it does offer some political thought now and then, but these mainly reflect the palestinian view.
overall it is an amazing read, a short but concentrated
acount that is also - interestingly - a gripping page-turner.
the book is not as political as some would want, it does offer some political thought now and then, but these mainly reflect the palestinian view.
overall it is an amazing read, a short but concentrated
acount that is also - interestingly - a gripping page-turner.
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