{"product_id":"my-name-is-adam-9780857057518","title":"My Name is Adam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKhoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite \u003ci\u003eNobel Prize\u003c\/i\u003e material \u003c\/b\u003eAvraham Burg, Haaretz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho is Adam Dannoun?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil a few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment - a consequence of smoking in bed - he thought he knew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories he collects speak of bravery, ingenuity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElias 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\u003cbr\u003eA writer of panoramic scope and ambition. -- Azadeh Moaveni * Financial Times. *\u003cbr\u003eThe finest living Arabic novelist. * World Literature Today. *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866066137431,"sku":"9780857057518","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857057518.jpg?v=1722276877","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/my-name-is-adam-9780857057518","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}