“She does not want to remember but she is here and memory is gathering bones,” begins The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste’s epic novel about the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
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“She does not want to remember but she is here and memory is gathering bones,” begins The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste’s epic novel about the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
The plot of Death Is Hard Work is anything but simple: Three siblings have to transport their dead father’s body across war-torn Syria so he can be buried in his home village.
You feel the tension, you feel the idealism, you feel the weight of history... Moriel Rothman-Zecher magnificently weaves all these strands of Jewish identity together.
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2014), Saadawi's story focuses on the traumatic aftermath of war and occupation, how violence leads to more violence, and how no one is truly innocent.
We just passed the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War in June 1967, and this book is vitally important to understanding the war's legacy.
American War works, largely, because as a reader you feel like this could be our future.
To the End of the Land takes you into the depths of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of one mourning mother and does not let you escape
