Raja Shehadeh: A Rift in Time
A Rift in Time
Buch
- Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
- Penguin Random House LLC, 09/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781635425215
- Bestellnummer: 11805205
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Gewicht: 367 g
- Maße: 201 x 134 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.9.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"An engrossing family memoir that shines a light on Palestine's history, offering a sober yet hopeful view of its people's struggles for freedom, from the award-winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I. The quest for his great-uncle Najib Nassar, an Ottoman journalist-the details of his life, and the route of his great escape from occupied Palestine-consumed award-winning writer Raja Shehadeh for 2 years. As he traces Najib's footsteps, he discovers that today it would be impossible to flee the cage that Palestine has become. A Rift in Time is a family memoir written in luminescent prose, but it is also a reflection on how Palestine-in particular the disputed Jordan Rift Valley-has been transformed. Most of Palestine's history and that of its people is buried deep in the ground: whole villages have disappeared, and names have been erased from the map. Yet by seeing the bigger picture of the landscape and the unending struggle for freedom as Shehadeh does, it is still possible to look towards a better future, free from Israeli or Ottoman oppression"--Biografie
Raja Shehadeh, geboren 1951, studierte in Beirut Literaturwissenschaft und in London Jura. 1979 gründete er die Menschenrechtsorganisation Law in the Service of Man, deren Anliegen es ist, internationales Recht in den besetzten Gebieten geltend zu machen. Shehadeh lebt in seiner Geburtsstadt Ramallah. Für Wanderungen in Palästina wurde ihm 2008 der Orwell-Preis verliehen, Großbritanniens wichtigste Auszeichnung für politisches Schreiben. Raja Shehadeh
A Rift in Time
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