Publication
Amsterdam Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas 2023
ISBN
9789083344126
Language
Collections
Description
Roman waarin de vlucht van drie Palestijnen van Syrië naar Koeweit beschreven wordt en waaruit de onbetrouwbaarheid van de bij deze mensensmokkel betrokken gidsen blijkt
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This is a collection of short stories written by a Palestinian author who was assasinated by car bomb in 1972. He himself left palestine as a young child, moved around the Middle East, finally settling in Beirut, Lebanon. This short story collection was well written, moving, and surprisingly devoid
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of anger. The stories tell tales of loss, courage, danger which although literally set in the Middle East, are really about universal truths of being a human being. The prose is very good, the plots moving and powerful, and I was left with a deep sense of how much a person can endure in order to survive.....loss of life, loss of a homeland, loss of a child, loss of a friend. So, in the end, the stories share the thread of loss and how it impacts the human heart. Show Less