A Balcony over the Fakihani (Interlink World Fiction)
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566564646 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 127 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ronald Scheer said Palestinians in Beirut .. Set in war-torn Beirut during 1980-8"Palestinians in Beirut ." according to Ronald Scheer. Set in war-torn Beirut during 1980-82, this powerful collection of three novellas by Jerusalem-born writer Liyana Badr tells the stories of several displaced Palestinian men and women. With memories still vivid of exile from former homelands and being driven out of Jordan in Black September of 1970, th. , this powerful collection of three novellas by Jerusalem-born writer Liyana Badr tells the stories of several displaced Palestinian men and women. With memories still vivid of exile from former homelands and being driven out of Jordan in Black September of 1970, th. Elegantly written and well-translated novel Liyanah Badr shares the experience of a Palestinian woman who has lived the resistance to Israeli occupation in its earliest stages. She provides insight into a world very few western readers will ever have exposure to, although it defines a critical period in the history and lives of thousands of Pale. Candid and Courageous: tragedy of humanity setsuko montgomery Under the unseen, yet definitely binding social stigma's presence, a brief, but deep emotion envelops the story of the extreme tragedy of the dislocated, the vividness so clear, as if each word in the sentences can be all replaced by the colors that come out from the reader's heart.The story's stage, B
-- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. From Kirkus Reviews Three poignant novellas about life-in-exile from Palestinian writer Badr, born in Jerusalem and now living in Tunisia. Unapologetically partisan, but the writing is good enough to rise above politics and tell moving tales of a troubled people living in an even more troubled place. All rights reserved.. A disturbing dream about a visit to the Martyrs' Cemetery leads Ysra to recall her father, who was killed by a shell while she was fetching water in the refugee camp, as well as her first meeting with her husband, and their brief, idyllic visit to his native village. The stories, set mainly in Beirut, are preoc
There is an attention to detail in these stories that brings the grand narrative of Palestinian history alive: a horrified mother spotting a white hair on her baby's head the morning after a mortar attack in Beirut; a woman hiding a Palestinian resistance fighter's gun moments before he is picked up by the Jordanian security police. Badr's intensively evocative contrapuntal style allows the reader to glimpse the joy and despair of these lives rooted in exile and resistance. The final movement of A Balcony over the Fakihani is a deeply poetic and harrowing account of Israeli air strikes during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, told from the perspective we so rarely encounter: that of the disenfranchised people whose courage and suffering cannot fail to move the readers of this extraordinary book.. The title story of Liyana Badr's remarkable collection of three short novellas interweaves the narratives of three Palestinians, two women and one man, relating their successive uprootings: from Palestine in 1948, from Jordan during Black September in 1970, to their final exile in Beirut