The Drone Eats with Me (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2015-03-31
Utmärkelser
Short-listed for The Memo Palestine Book Awards 2015
Förlag
Comma Press
Medarbetare
Chomsky, Noam (foreword)
Dimensioner
200 x 190 x 20 mm
Vikt
290 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781905583713

The Drone Eats with Me

Diaries from a City Under Fire

av Atef Abu Saif
Häftad,  Engelska, 2015-03-31
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On 7 July 2014, in an apparent response to the murder of three teenagers, Israel launched a major offensive against the Gaza Strip, lasting 51 days, killing 2145 Palestinians (578 of them children), injuring over 11,000, and demolishing 17,200 homes. The usual news machine rolled up, and the same distressing images and entrenched political rhetoric were broadcast, yet almost nothing was reported of the on-going lives of ordinary Gazans the real victims of the war. One of the few voices to make it out was that of Atef Abu Saif, a writer and teacher from Jabalia Refugee Camp, whose eye-witness accounts (published in The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere) offered a rare window into the conflict for Western readers. Here, Atefs complete diaries of the war allow us to witness the full extent of last summers atrocities from the most humble of perspectives: that of a young father, fearing for his familys safety, trying to stay sane in an insanely one-sided war.
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Witnessed, lived, and recorded page by page. A searing account of living through the 2014 bombardment of Gaza. We who report it can never capture the true scale of individual and collective suffering. As a Gaza resident, Atef Abu Saif's diary provides an insight no outsider could ever have achieved. Jon Snow; 'In this luminous account of Israels 2014 invasion of Gaza, Atef Abu Saif creates a literary equivalent to Goyas Disasters of War. The Drone Eats with Me deserves to become a modern classic of war literature. But for all the surrealist absurdity of the horrors Abu Saif chronicles, the book pulses throughout with the sublime, mundane and ferocious love for life.' Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood; 'The Drone Eats with Me is a devastating contemporary war journal. This is what war is like in the 21st century the voice of a civilian in the onslaught of drone warfare, a voice we have never heard before.' Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient and Divisadero.

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Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1973. He holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Birzeit and a Masters degree from the University of Bradford. He received a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of five novels: Shadows in the Memory (1997), The Tale of the Harvest Night (1999), Snowball (2000), The Salty Grape of Paradise (2003, 2006) and A Suspended Life (2014), which was shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arab Fiction (IPAF). He has also published two collections of short stories Everything is Normal (2004) and Still Life: Stories from Gaza Time (2013) as well as several books on politics. He is a regular contributor to a number of Palestinian and Arabic newspapers and journals. In 2014 Atef edited The Book of Gaza, as part of Commas City in Short Fiction series, which featured ten short stories by ten contemporary authors from the Strip. In 2015 Atef was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arab Fiction, also known as the 'Arabic Man Booker'. In 2018 he also won the Katari Prize for Best Arabic Novel (young writers category).

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