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Lying ill in hospital, facing a painting of a ship, a teacher and journalist on the point of becoming a full-time writer goes back over his life. He has always felt a stranger: he sought acceptance from a political organisation, from one woman who stood for all women, and from the wars of his time, which he only ever watched from their edges, and found none of it. Memories of the Nakba of 1948, the defeat of 1967, the siege of Beirut in 1982 and the Gulf wars rise and fall in his account. Writing becomes his last way of belonging and of saving himself. The narrative moves between a first-person voice and a second-person one, and between memoir and invention, leaving the reader suspended in the middle ground the title names.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

233 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

2007 by Al-Mu'assasa al-Arabiya lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr and Dar Azmina

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789957092764 (original)

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