
Pay No Heed to the Rockets
Life in Contemporary Palestine
Marcello Di Cintio(Author)
Counterpoint (Publisher)
Published on 10. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-64009-255-6 (ISBN)
Description
"With humility, respect, and great sensitivity, he seeks out writers, people skilled at telling stories, and asks them to narrate their own situations. The result is a document that captures not only the manifold sorrows and injustices of Palestinian life but something of its beauty, its joys, and its yearning." -Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring
Taking the long route through the West Bank, into Jerusalem, across Israel, and finally into Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio meets with Palestinian poets, authors, librarians, and booksellers to learn about Palestine through their eyes. Pay No Heed to the Rockets offers a look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary culture, one that begins with art rather than with war.
Taking the long route through the West Bank, into Jerusalem, across Israel, and finally into Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio meets with Palestinian poets, authors, librarians, and booksellers to learn about Palestine through their eyes. Pay No Heed to the Rockets offers a look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary culture, one that begins with art rather than with war.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64009-255-6 (9781640092556)
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Person
MARCELLO DI CINTIO is the author of four books, including the critically acclaimed Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, winner of the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Di Cintio's essays have been published in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, and Afar. He lives in Calgary.
Content
Introduction The Girl in the Green Dress
1 The Homeland Is Where None of This Can Happen
2 Whenever My Sore Heart Gets Hungry
3 To Breathe Life into a Name
4 I Do Not Have an Account in the Bank of Wars
5 If You Can Hear the Rockets, Then You Are Alive
6 She Is Oranges That Explode
Conclusion Her Name Is Maram
Reading List
Acknowledgments
1 The Homeland Is Where None of This Can Happen
2 Whenever My Sore Heart Gets Hungry
3 To Breathe Life into a Name
4 I Do Not Have an Account in the Bank of Wars
5 If You Can Hear the Rockets, Then You Are Alive
6 She Is Oranges That Explode
Conclusion Her Name Is Maram
Reading List
Acknowledgments