Native

Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life

De: Sayed Kashua, Ralph Mandel - translator

Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Sayed Kashua has been praised by The New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society". An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to telling the Palestinian story and exploring the contradictions of modern Israel while also capturing the nuances of everyday family life in all its tenderness and chaos.

With an intimate tone fueled by deep-seated apprehension and razor-sharp ironic wit, Kashua has been documenting his own life as well as that of society at large: He writes about his children's upbringing and encounters with racism, about fatherhood and married life, the Jewish-Arab conflict, his professional ambitions, travels around the world as an author, and - more than anything - his love of books and literature. He brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and fearless reflections on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies.

Written between 2006 and 2014, Native is like an unrestrained, profoundly thoughtful personal journal.

©2016 Sayed Kashua. Translation 2014 by Haaretz. First published as Ben Haaretz by Keter Publishing House in 2015. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

What a wonderful book

An amazing book that shows how colonialism is still alive in Palestine and what remains of it.