The Book of Disappearance
Book description
What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through…
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Azem takes a premise here and runs with it. How about, she asks, if all the Palestinians just disappeared, what would the reaction be?
The heart of the novel is the grandmother character, who dies as the book opens and the other Palestinians vanish and I wanted more recollections of her, more of her dialogue. Set mainly between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, the fusing of the two names irritates the grandmother, who says it’s "just like someone being up your ass. You don’t see them, and they never let go."
There are sharp cameos here of Israeli-Palestinian relations, from buyers…
From Selma's list on being Palestinian.
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