My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness

• Utgivningsdatum: 2010-03-16
• Mått: 156 x 235 x undefined mm
• Vikt: 635 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 464
• Förlag: Yale University Press
• ISBN: 9780300164275

• Biografi: författare och journalister

Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. In 2013 she received the Windham Campbell Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Jerusalem and New Haven, CT.

“[A] superb biography. . . . A remarkable achievement.”—Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books“A rich tapestry of the personal, the literary and the political, skillfully woven by a sympathetic writer. . . . Hoffman’s intense but often humorous book is a powerful reminder of the singularity and complexity of this most intractable of conflicts and of the ability of the human spirit to be creative in adversity.”—The Guardian“Beautifully written. . . . In tracing [Muhammad Ali’s] life . . . Hoffman manages to illuminate the experience of an entire people. She is scrupulously even-handed. . . . [This] is not only the biography of a remarkable man; it is an act of reclamation against the erosions of memory.”—Eric Ormsby, Times Literary Supplement“Veering between biography, history, journalism and memoir, this painstakingly researched work is a human-scale picture of the generally under-reported history of the Palestinians in Israel as well as an accessible introduction to their poetry. Rather like the poet himself [Muhammad Ali] seems to be, Ms Hoffman’s book is unpretentious, principled and utterly charming.”—The EconomistWinner of the 2010 Jewish Quarterly Wingate PrizeWinner of the 2013 Windham Campbell Prizes administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University“Adina Hoffman’s portrait of Taha Muhammad Ali brings to life character after character, each one viewed with the author’s singular humanity. The poet himself is a figure of great originality and integrity, and his life becomes a mirror of a world which we have glimpsed, until now, largely in broken fragments. I hope this landmark book will be widely, and carefully, read.”—W. S. Merwin“From Adina Hoffman’s extraordinary book, I have not only learned about the life of that wise, sweet, cunning, superbly gifted and totally original Palestinian poet, Taha Muhammad Ali, but I have learned—more than ever before—about Jewish and Arab history in Palestine. The book is heartbreaking, riveting, and beautifully written. Moreover it’s one of a kind, courageous, and deeply honest.”—Gerald Stern, National Book Award–winner for This Time: New and Selected Poems“Adina Hoffman’s writing is historical magic. She relates world-scale political history on a human scale, so that the ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ conflict is rendered, with clarity and fairness, the story of one family, one village, one exodus, one return. At the end of the day, the meaning of this history is explored and contemplated in the ways a great novel achieves that kind of contemplation. A series of brilliantly told and searing stories, this is at once a page-turner and a book to be savored.”—María Rosa Menocal, author of The Ornament of the World“Reading Adina Hoffman’s remarkable book we are consoled that, in the face of terrible brutalities and sufferings, the enduring power of poetry might restore in words—and celebrate—a measure of what has been lost in reality.”—Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran“Adina Hoffman has given us a superbly composed meditation upon memory, truth, and conflict in the Middle East. The texture of her prose, the improbable transformations of key characters, and above all their human depth and complexity, contribute to a luminous portrait of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali and of his world. I would place My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness among the five ‘must read’ books on the Israel-Palestine tragedy.”—Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School, University of Chicago

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