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`Extraordinary ... a tribute to the power of critical thought to register the injustices of history' --Guardian
'Exhilarating ... How often can you say of a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul' --The Times
'A mesmerising and prophetic testimony that unfolds with a magnificent, biblical simplicity' --Independent
`Poetic, anguished and uncompromising ... the lyricism of the writing has been beautifully captured' --Times Literary Supplement
'[A] luminous account ... Khirbet Khizet remains painfully relevant, and the moral questioning lives on'
--Ian McEwan
'Exhilarating ... How often can you say of a harrowing, unquiet book that it makes you wrestle with your soul' --The Times
'A mesmerising and prophetic testimony that unfolds with a magnificent, biblical simplicity' --Independent
`Poetic, anguished and uncompromising ... the lyricism of the writing has been beautifully captured' --Times Literary Supplement
'[A] luminous account ... Khirbet Khizet remains painfully relevant, and the moral questioning lives on'
--Ian McEwan
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This 1949 novella about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army has long been considered a modern Hebrew masterpiece, and it has also given rise to fierce controversy over the years. Published just months after the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Khirbet Khizeh (the 'kh' pronounced like the 'ch' in 'Bach') was an immediate sensation when it first appeared. Thousands of Israeli Jews rushed to read it, the critics began to argue about it, and a Palestinian journalist in Nablus described it as a sign that the Israeli army had a conscience and that peace was possible. Since then, the book has continued to challenge and disturb. The various debates it has prompted would themselves make Khirbet Khizeh worth reading, but the novella is much more than a vital historical document: it is also a great work of art. Yizhar's haunting, lyrical style and charged registration of the landscape are in many ways as startling as his wrenchingly honest view of one of Israel's defining moments. Despite its international reputation, this is the first UK publication of Khirbet Khizeh.
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This little novella, first published in Hebrew in 1949, was instrumental in bringing home to Israelis for the first time the true horror, and the human cost, of the destruction of Palestinian villages cleansed of their inhabitants to make way for the `new Zion'. From the perspective of young, bored, fearful solders, it tells the story of the clearance of the village of Khirbet Khizeh. As they first strafe the village with machine-gun fire, then clear and blow up every house in the village, it's a shocking illustration of the banality that can so easily accompany evil.
This fresh and lively new translation by Nicholas de Lange and Yaakob Dweck manages to suggest something of the power of Yizhar Similansky's prose. But Israeli peace activist David Shulman's powerful afterword illustrates in more depth the forceful impact the many biblical allusions would have had on those originally reading in Hebrew; it also describes, via the present-day `realities on the ground', how a tragedy very similar to that of Khirbet Khizeh's continues to play out in the daily lives of Palestinians sixty years on. Stark and powerful.
This fresh and lively new translation by Nicholas de Lange and Yaakob Dweck manages to suggest something of the power of Yizhar Similansky's prose. But Israeli peace activist David Shulman's powerful afterword illustrates in more depth the forceful impact the many biblical allusions would have had on those originally reading in Hebrew; it also describes, via the present-day `realities on the ground', how a tragedy very similar to that of Khirbet Khizeh's continues to play out in the daily lives of Palestinians sixty years on. Stark and powerful.
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