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| Title Statement | Sand-catcher / Omar Khalifah ; translated by Barbara Romaine. |
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| Author | Khalifah, Omar |
| Additional Contributors | Romaine, Barbara,1959- |
| Khalifah, Omar | |
| Publication | Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press,[2024]©2024 |
| Extent of Item | vi, 173 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781566897334 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07799889 |
| General Notes | "Originally published in Arabic by Al-Ahliya Publishing House, 2020"--Title page verso. |
| Languages | Translated from the Arabic. |
| Summary | "Four Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked with writing a profile on one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. Confident that the old man will be more than willing to go on record about his experiences, the reporters are nonplussed when they are repeatedly, and obscenely, rebuffed by the man and his grandchildren. This living witness to history seems to have no desire to be interviewed, no desire for his memories to be preserved, no desire to talk. As the team's editor-in-chief puts more and more pressure on the young journalists, a battle of wills escalates to ruinous consequences that will leave no one unscathed."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Intergenerational relations--Fiction |
| Journalists--Fiction | |
| Memory--Fiction | |
| Palestinian Arabs--Fiction--Israel | |
| Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1948--Fiction | |
| Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1948--Personal narratives--Fiction | |
| Witnesses--Fiction | |
| By Location | Palestine--Fiction |
| By Genre | Political fiction |
| Satirical fiction | |
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