The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby

The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist

Emile Habiby

169 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reaso...

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