{"product_id":"describing-the-past-ghassan-zaqtan-9780857423498","title":"Describing the Past","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eDescribing the Past\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ghassan Zaqtan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0857423495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857423498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 4.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Ghassan Zaqtan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926661136639,"sku":"9780857423498","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7b91cdac-b476-4442-920e-699c9355fbce.jpg?v=1681084315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/describing-the-past-ghassan-zaqtan-9780857423498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}