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“The Book of Disappearances”
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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Dec 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the novel The Book of Disappearances 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. Text: The Book of Disappearances by Ibtisam Azem, translated by Sinan Antoon.
Released:
Dec 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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