"I could not believe that human beings could forget so easily. . . ." Love and life, sex and death, childhood and oppression are Inside the Night. Vivid moments of remembrance, disparate yet interconnected, come together to form the body-- torn but not broken--of this novel. Beginning with a scene of departure, the two nameless narrators roam back and forth in time, veering from childhood mischief to a Palestinian refugee camp massacre; from ardent first love to necessary migration to an Arab oil country for employment; ...
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"I could not believe that human beings could forget so easily. . . ." Love and life, sex and death, childhood and oppression are Inside the Night. Vivid moments of remembrance, disparate yet interconnected, come together to form the body-- torn but not broken--of this novel. Beginning with a scene of departure, the two nameless narrators roam back and forth in time, veering from childhood mischief to a Palestinian refugee camp massacre; from ardent first love to necessary migration to an Arab oil country for employment; from spirited adolescent fantasies to the grim reality of life in an Arab country whose claims to progress are mounted on the bent backs of its people. A forest of interwoven tales and strange destinies, Ibrahim Nasrallah's novel carves the history of a people over half a century into fragments that are poetic, multi-sensory, and richly evocative. Inside the Night's self-contained freedom is a refreshing development in the corpus of Palestinian, and human, literature.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. Cairo, New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2007. 182 pp. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated paper covered boards with white titling to spine, in an illustrated stiff paper dustjacket with white titling on cover and yellow titling on spine. First printing. Some light rubbing to panels of jacket. Light bump to head of spine of jacket. Light bump to head of spine of book. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding firm. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 9789774160974. A novel. Translated from the Arabic by Bakr R. Abbas. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
