Describing the Past (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780857423498)

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

This novella is a coming of age story, a tale of youth set amid the death and chaos of war and violence. It is an elegy for the loss of a childhood friend, and for childhood itself, brought back to life here as if dreams and memories have merged into a new state of being, an altered consciousness and way of being in and remembering the world.

Author: Ghassan Zaqtan
ISBN-10: 0857423495
ISBN-13: 9780857423498
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2016
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.10h x 4.90w x 0.60d