In Search of Fatima : A Palestinian Story (Paperback)

from cougar_c

Its a 400 page book, but you would hardly feel that. If anything, you are left wishing she had written more! In a recent interview, Ghada Karmi mentioned that there is more to the story - she did manage to trace Fatima. I hope that she writes a sequel, if not a trilogy of the "Palestinian Story."

from aamirq

A truly sensitive story about displacement from Palestine and re-settlement in England as an immigrant, in the backdrop of the Palestinian struggle. The book opens with a chilling recollection of events leading to her family's expulsion from Palestine in 1948. The scene shifts to England, where h...

from TheBooknerd

This is a thick book that reads fairly slow. If you can get through it, though, the refugee's perspective of the Palestine/Israel conflict is worth the occasional yawn. This certainly wasn't the history of Israel I read about in high school and junior college.

from labfs39

In Search of Fatima is an amazing book in several regards. It is a well-written memoir of a woman who spent her childhood in Palestine, her young adulthood in England, and her adulthood in limbo between the Arab world and England. It is also an amateur history of the British Mandate in Palestine ...

from cougar_c

Its a 400 page book, but you would hardly feel that. If anything, you are left wishing she had written more! In a recent interview, Ghada Karmi mentioned that there is more to the story - she did manage to trace Fatima. I hope that she writes a sequel, if not a trilogy of the "Palestinian Story."