Description
A moving and revelatory Palestinian memoir by the author of I Saw Ramallah
About the Author
Mourid Barghouti was born in 1944 near Ramallah. He has published thirteen books of poetry in Arabic including a Collected Works (1997) and was awarded the Palestine Award for Poetry in 2000. Mourid Barghouti lives in Cairo with his wife, the novelist Radwa Ashour.
Reviews
A particularly sophisticated insight into the plight of Palestinians and their perspective on the conflict ... Beautiful -- Jake Wallis Simons * Independent on Sunday *
A salutary lesson * Economist *
An honest confrontation with Israeli violence and impunity, an unflinching description of the Palestinian Authority's compromising failures, and a plea for joy. Barghouti renders the world with rare exactitude -- Guy Mannes-Abbot * Independent *
An urgent meditation on the existential condition of exile, both within one's homeland and without * Metro *
Praise for I Saw Ramallah
'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 *
'Outside any political faction, Barghouti manages to be temperate, fair-minded, resilient and uniquely sad' * Tom Paulin, Independent *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408822470
Author Mourid Barghouti
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 200g