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The novel returns to Jerusalem in the 1970s, when the city, just out of its second war in two decades, lives through something close to famine and struggles to absorb the shock of defeat by a stronger occupier. It celebrates the place and its many people, of many origins and nationalities, crowded for centuries into about a square kilometre inside the walls. At the same time it questions received truths: the patriotic songs, the official statements, even the early armed resistance whose sacrifices did not free the city. Against the Jerusalem of anthems it sets the city of the ordinary and the defeated, who have always paid the price as one ruler followed another.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

677 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Palestinian Territories, 1970s

First published

2023 by Al-Mutawassit

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9791255910152 (original)

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