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Raja Shehadeh

When the Bulbul Stopped Singing

Life in Palestine During an Israeli Siege

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The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the rooftops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened children, ages four and six. This book is an account of what it is like to be under siege: the terror, the frustrations, the humiliations, and the rage of civilians becoming trapped in their own homes and at the mercy of young soldiers who have been ordered to set aside their own sense of human decency in orde… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: McCann, Colum
  • ISBN: 978-1-58642-250-9
  • EAN: 9781586422509
  • Produktnummer: 31777118
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.

Über den Autor


RAJA SHEHADEH is a Palestinian lawyer and writer who lives in Ramallah. He is a founder of Al-Haq, a pioneering, nonpartisan human rights organization, and the author of several books, including Strangers in the House and Palestinian Walks.INTRODUCTION WRITER COLUM MCCANN is the internationally bestselling author of such novels as TransAtlantic and National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin. His fiction has been published in more than 40 languages. His other honors include the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and in 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children, and he is the cofounder of the global nonprofit story exchange organization, Narrative 4.

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