Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine

By Marcello Di Cintio

Pay No Heed to the Rockets tells a fresh story about Palestine, one that begins with art rather than war, and one that intentionally avoids depicting Palestinians as merely one-half of the Israeli/Palestinian binary

For readers who loved Reading Lolita in Tehran and the travel writing of Paul Theroux or Ben Ehrenreich, Pay No Heed to the Rockets is in the company of works by literary giants like Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Kanafani

The author's last book, Walls, was named one of The Globe and Mail's best books of 2012, and won the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and received widespread critical acclaim

2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli War, and now is the time to rethink our approach to truly understanding the people who inhabit Palestine

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Release date: Sep 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781640090828

Marcello Di Cintio

Marcello Di Cintio is the author of four books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades which won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize, and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense—also a W. O. Mitchell Prize winner. Di Cintio’s magazine writing has appeared in publications such as The International New York Times, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic and Afar. Di Cintio has served as a writer-in-residence at the Calgary Public Library, the University of Calgary, and the Palestine Writing Workshop, and he teaches nonfiction writing at the annual WordsWorth youth writing residency.