A curious land
Subtitle: stories from home
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781625341877
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social life and customs; Villages; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and, ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of home. A Curious Land gives voice to the experiences of Palestinians in the last century." --
Notes: Winner of the 2014 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction.
Table of contents: title: The journey home --; title: Abu Sufayan --; title: The well --; title: Rocky soil --; title: Intifada love story --; title: The fall --; title: Behind the pillars of the Orthodox Church --; title: Village gossip: the view from the Qahwah --; title: Christmas in Palestine --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: About the author.