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The Book of Disappearance: A Novel (Middle East Literature In Translation) by Azem, Ibtisam; Antoon, Sinan; is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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What If All The Palestinians In Israel Simply Disappeared One Day? What Would Happen Next? How Would Israelis React? These Unsettling Questions Are Posed In Azem's Powerfully Imaginative Novel. Set In Contemporary Tel Aviv Forty Eight Hours After Israelis Discover All Their Palestinian Neighbors Have Vanished, The Story Unfolds Through Alternating Narrators, Alaa, A Young Palestinian Man Who Converses With His Dead Grandmother In The Journal He Left Behind When He Disappeared, And His Jewish Neighbor, Ariel, A Journalist Struggling To Understand The Traumatic Event. Through These Perspectives, The Novel Stages A Confrontation Between Two Memories. Ariel Is A Liberal Zionist Who Is Critical Of The Military Occupation Of The West Bank And Gaza, But Nevertheless Believes In Israel's Project And Its National Myth. Alaa Is Haunted By His Grandmother's Memories Of Being Displaced From Jaffa And Becoming A Refugee In Her Homeland. Ariel's Search For Clues To The Secret Of The Collective Disappearance And His Reaction To It Intimately Reveal The Fissures At The Heart Of The Palestinian Question. The Book Of Disappearance Grapples With Both The Memory Of Loss And The Loss Of Memory For The

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Author

Azem, Ibtisam; Antoon, Sinan;

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815611110

Category

science

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14