Let it be morning
By: Sayed Kashua ; translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781847827814
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs; Fiction; Arab-Israeli conflict; Social aspects
Work titles: Ṿa-yehi boḳer
Description: A young journalist, recently married and with a new baby, is seeking a quieter life away from the city and has bought a large house in his parents' hometown, an Arab village in Israel. Nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people petty and provincial and the villagers divided between sympathy for the Palestinians and dependence on the Israelis. Suddenly and shockingly, the village becomes a pawn in the power struggles of the Middle East. When Israeli tanks surround the village without warning or explanation, everyone inside is cut off from the outside world. As the situation grows increasingly tense, our hero is forced to confront what it means to be human in an inhuman situation.
Notes: This translation originally published: New York: Black Cat, 2006 ; London: Atlantic, 2007.