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Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material Avraham Burg, Haaretz

Who is Adam Dannoun?

Until a few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment - a consequence of smoking in bed - he thought he knew.

But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changed all that. From Mahmoud he learned the terrible truth behind his birth, a truth withheld from him for fifty-seven years by the woman he thought was his mother.

This discovery leads Adam to investigate what exactly happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city of Lydda where he was born: the massacre, the forced march into the wilderness and the corralling of those citizens who did not flee into what the Israeli soldiers and their Palestinian captives came to refer to as the Ghetto.

The stories he collects speak of bravery, ingenuity

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Elias Khoury is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages. -- Edward W. Said
A writer of panoramic scope and ambition. -- Azadeh Moaveni * Financial Times. *
The finest living Arabic novelist. * World Literature Today. *

My Name is Adam

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 11 October 2018
      ISBN-13 9780857057518
      978-0857057518
      ISBN-10 0857057510
      Also in:
      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material Avraham Burg, Haaretz

      Who is Adam Dannoun?

      Until a few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment - a consequence of smoking in bed - he thought he knew.

      But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changed all that. From Mahmoud he learned the terrible truth behind his birth, a truth withheld from him for fifty-seven years by the woman he thought was his mother.

      This discovery leads Adam to investigate what exactly happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city of Lydda where he was born: the massacre, the forced march into the wilderness and the corralling of those citizens who did not flee into what the Israeli soldiers and their Palestinian captives came to refer to as the Ghetto.

      The stories he collects speak of bravery, ingenuity

      Trade Review
      Elias Khoury is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages. -- Edward W. Said
      A writer of panoramic scope and ambition. -- Azadeh Moaveni * Financial Times. *
      The finest living Arabic novelist. * World Literature Today. *

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