The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion - Couverture rigide

Musallam, Akram

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857428934 ISBN 13 : 9780857428936

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor.

On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his father's amputated leg, dreaming nightly of a haunting scorpion, witnessing the powerful aura of his mountain-lodging aunt. His work in progress is a meditation on absence, loss, and emptiness. He poses deep questions: What does it mean to exist? How can you confirm the existence of a place, a person, a limb? How do we engage with what is no longer there? Absurd at times, raw at others, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion explores Palestinian identity through Akram Musallam's extended metaphors in the hope of transcending the loss of territory and erasure of history.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Akram Musallam was born in Talfit near Nablus in the West Bank in 1972. He graduated from the department of letters and holds an MA in international studies from the University of Birzeit. He writes for the daily al-Ayyam and is the editor of the political quarterly al-Siyasa.

Sawad Hussain is an Arabic translator with an MA in Modern Arabic Literature from SOAS University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857428934
• ISBN 13: 9780857428936
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible