Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish

Memory for Forgetfulness

Mahmoud Darwish with Sinan Antoon (Contributor), Ibrahim Muhawi (Translator)

223 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As...

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