حياة معلقة

Naim was born in war and dies in war. He owned the camp's only printing press and printed its martyr posters, yet when an army bullet kills him his son will not allow a poster of his father, and a debate about heroism begins. The ordinary death unsettles the quiet lane at the camp's edge where Naim built his house on a hill. The authorities plan to put up a police post and a mosque there, but for the refugees the hill is a mountain: their first tents went up on it after the Nakba, and the first soldier fell there when Israel took the camp. Their resistance leads to clashes with the police. With memories of Jaffa, the novel follows thirty years of change in Gaza.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Politics, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Palestinian Territories

First published

2015 by Dar al-Ahlia

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9789957390358 (original)

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