by Hubert Haddad · Demipage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492719167
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«Palestina» is the novel by Hubert Haddad, published by Demipage in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).
A young Israeli soldier loses his memory when, wounded and in shock after an assault in the West Bank, he is kidnapped and then rescued by two Palestinian women. Under the new name of Nessim and during his convalescence, living with the family that takes him in confronts him with daily life under occupation and the pain of the Palestinian people, until he feels like one of them.
Translation from French by Purificación Meseguer; second edition of the Narrativa collection. Prix Renaudot 2009 and Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking a human story about the Middle East conflict and life under occupation.
Hubert Haddad is a Tunisian poet, playwright, short story writer and novelist. He was born in Tunis in 1947. His debut collection of poems Le Charnier déductif appeared in 1967, and his first novel Un rêve de glace was published in 1974. Since then he has published numerous works in a wide range of literary forms.
