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Going Home
Raja Shehadeh
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Winner of the Moore Prize 2020
In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the houses, and the businesses that were and now are cornerstones of the city and his community.
This is, in many ways, an elegy. Green spaces - gardens and hills crowned with olive trees - have been replaced by tower blocks and concrete lots; the occupation and the settlements have further entrenched themselves in every aspect of movement-from the roads that can and cannot be used to the bureaucratic barriers that prevent people leaving the West Bank. The culture of the city has also shifted with Islam taking a more prominent role in people's everyday and political lives and the geography of the city.
As he grapples with ageing and the failures of the resistance, Shehadeh notes the ways that the past still invades the presence from the ruins of the compound that was Yasser Arafat's home to the power of emigrated families to reshape neighbourhoods by selling their long-abandoned homes.
This is perhaps Raja Shehadeh's most painfully visceral book.
Rezensionen
<p>Praise for <i>Where the Line is Drawn:</i><br>Brilliantly evokes the Palestinian tragedy by way of a complex friendship. This is a fiercely intelligent and honest account.</p>
<i>Going Home</i> is about searching for the meaning of 'home'
The question of how and if friendships can survive across political divides is a resonant one - and I can think of no one better than Raja Shehadeh to treat it with the wisdom, toughness and humanity that it deserves.
Shehadeh writes beautifully, his language infused with a lyrical, melancholic sense of loss. An important record of a land marked by conflict that is changing every day
A courageous and timely meditation on the fragility of friendship in dark times, illuminating how affiliation and love[...]can have a profound political power.
In the dark agony of the Palestine-Israel conflict, Raja Shehadeh offers a rare gift: a lucid, honest, unsparing voice. His humanity and wisdom are invaluable.
This is one of the most intensely human and humane books one is likely to read in a very long while, replete with an elevating dignity and suffused with deep melancholy.
<i>Going Home</i> cements the author'
Shehadeh'
<p>Praise for <i>Palestinian Walks</i>: <br><br>'
Shehadeh describes how the destruction of a beloved landscape mirrors the damage to Palestinian identity ... lyrical nature writing with understated political passion
The wisdom and elegance of Raja Shehadeh'
An insightful, illuminating book
Written with fierce clarity and unusual compassion, this book touches the human heart of a political tragedy.
Shehadeh [...] is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise.
Palestine'
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PLO, Palestinian Walks, Strangers in the House, Raja Shehadeh, Resistance, Ramallah, Where the Line is Drawn, Palestine, Occupations, Occupation Diaries, Palestinian Authority, Memoir, Israel