Touch
Touch centers on a girl, the youngest of nine sisters in a Palestinian family. In the singular world of this novella, this young woman's everyday experiences?watching a funeral procession, fighting with her siblings, learning to read, perhaps falling in love?resonate until they have become as weighty as any national tragedy. The smallest sensations compel, the events of history only lurk at the edges?the question of Palestine, the massacre at Sabra and Shatila. In a language that feels at once …
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- Full title :Touch / by Adania Shibli ; translated from the Arabic by Paula Haydar.
Summary
Touch centers on a girl, the youngest of nine sisters in a Palestinian family. In the singular world of this novella, this young woman's everyday experiences?watching a funeral procession, fighting with her siblings, learning to read, perhaps falling in love?resonate until they have become as weighty as any national tragedy. The smallest sensations compel, the events of history only lurk at the edges?the question of Palestine, the massacre at Sabra and Shatila. In a language that feels at once natural and alienated, Shibli breaks with the traditions of modern Arabic fiction, creating a w.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Clockroot Books
- Place of Publication:Northampton, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781623710453, 1623710456
- oclc:on1124401470
- LC Classification:PJ7962.H425
- Dewey Decimal:892.7/37
Table of Contents
Cover; Touch; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Colors; Silence; Movement; Language; The Wall.
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