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A bylo jitro

Sayed Kashua,

Sajjid Kašua,

Šárka Doležalová (Translator)

3.78 · Rating details · 567 ratings · 79 reviews

Protagonista této mimořádné knihy je arabský novinář, který vystudoval izraelské školy. Píše hebrejsky a pracuje jako reportér pro izraelské noviny. Jeho národnost mu umožňuje přístup do arabského prostředí a on pro své noviny přináší pravidelné reportáže o událostech na Západním břehu. Ale po dvoudenních násilných potyčkách, při nichž izraelská armáda potlačí palestinské ...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Shay added it · review of another edition

Sayed Kashua is an Arab-Israeli journalist and novelist who often takes the understandable albeit slightly hypercritical stance of "don't think of me as an Arab-Israel writer just because I'm an Arab-Israeli who writes about Arab-Israelis."

The novel begins with the quasi-autobiographical story of a journalist returning with his wife and daughter to the Arab village where he grew up - this is an interesting touch since it roots the average contemporary reader, probably familiar with Kashua's biography through his personal column, in the very real world and leads him to expect the novel to be thinly-veiled autobiography, thus increasing the level of surprise when the events around the narrator/protagonist get gradually crazier. This approach, however, has its price since the story is written in a rather plain and colloquial style, which works fine for the breezy column and the mundane events of the earlier parts of the book, but falls short in the more dramatic scenes, and ultimately makes the whole book feel less like a carefully-considered and plotted work of fiction and more like a really fascinating idea executed almost haphazardly.

The fascinating idea at the core of this work is that, shortly after the journalist's return, the whole village is closed off from the rest of Israel, surrounded by tanks, its power and water cut off, and anyone trying to escape is shot. The story then advances as the protagonist and his family try to survive in this new situation, all the while trying to figure out what exactly is going on around them, and dealing with the problems of food and water shortages, (graphically) overflowing sewage, and eruptions of violence by street gangs and neighbors. I thought this set up had a lot of potential, and consistently wanted for it to develop and expand, thinking of works like Albert Camus's The Plague and even Aharon Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939, but Kashua doesn't venture too far into speculative territory, settling for several days of discomfort and strain, culminating in a violent confrontation between the protagonist's family and their neighbors, which is diffused relatively quickly.

Then, just as the situation becomes untenable, it is resolved by the sudden restoration of water and electricity, which makes way for the surprising (but predictable) twist - the reason for the siege was secret negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, who have now signed a peace agreement under which the village is transferred, in exchange for some Jewish settlements, to the Palestinian authority. Lieberman's dream has come true. And then... that's it. The book ends. Except for a couple of mild hints and incredulous reactions, there's no exploration of life under Palestinian authority. I agree this is a totally different issue and calls for a totally different novel to be written (a sequel perhaps? Let it be Night?), but the desire for a continuation of the narrative tells me something else about the novel - all through reading it, I was waiting for it to start. The book did provide a brief glimpse of what happens when the social order collapses, but it didn't go far enough, halting the plot with a sudden deus ex machina before things got too extreme, and failing to deeply explore the issues it touched upon.

So much for my general criticisms, now let me get a little more nitpicky and fanciful (which is always more fun). In the final scene the journalist talks with his editor at the Israeli paper he worked for, who wants him to write about the events of the last few days and become their regular correspondent in what is now Palestine. He promises him a regular job, but says:

"Listen, there might be a problem with the payment, because we're having crazy cutbacks. So it won't be as much as we used to pay you, but now the cost of living for you there is going to be much lower than here, no?"

This line, which is the final line of the book, made it clear to me that Kashua is more of a columnist than a novelist, or that at least his columnist instincts have taken over and he couldn't resist an easy joke (or a jab at Israeli hypocrisy). There are many things that could have been done differently in the book, but looking at the book on its own terms this last scene could have easily been done better, with the final line serving as both a joke and a sly metafictional wink, and here's how:

Since the book starts by presenting what we suspect is a thinly-veiled version of the author's life before gradually drawing us into the fictional world, I thought the best thing to do at the end would be to throw us back into the author's real world. Thus, when the editor asks the journalist if he could write a few words about what he'd been through, his response should be something like:

"Buddy, I could write a book."

The End.

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Oct 08, 2019 Miriam Cihodariu rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: israel-jewish-lit, palestina

Just as bitterly funny as 'Dancing Arabs', but with a much darker and serious note. The atmosphere is one of uncertainty and paranoia (a partially justified one, actually), where the tension is prolonged indefinitely.

The Israel Arabs, proud of their state citizenship and defining themselves as 'better' than the 'others', still on the West Bank / in the Gaza strip, are faced with a harsh surprise. Tanks are enclosing their village (small town suburb, more like), their power and water supplies ar ...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Rania Masri added it · review of another edition

This is a problematic book.
(1) reviewers claim the book discusses the "anti-semitism" in the "arab" community in israel and they point to such a discussion as a positive example of the book. however, there were no examples of anti-semitism in the book. rather, the main characters in the book discuss the discrimination they face from israeli jews.
(2) more importantly, however, the community continues to present itself as 'israeli arabs' and to refer to the palestinians of the west bank as 'palest ...more

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Feb 24, 2021 Millie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Jan 01, 2019 Andrew Jacobson rated it liked it · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. As a group that operates at the seam between Israeli-Jewish and Muslim-Palestinian society, Israeli-Arabs complicate our understanding of the traditional binaries between Jewish and Muslim, and Israeli and Palestinian. Sayed Kashua's 2006 novel "Let It Be Morning," examines the Israeli-Arab position in Israeli society and reveals ultimately that the aforementioned dichotomies are more fluid than we may have first imagined.

Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-Arab writer, journalist, and screenwriter, was As a group that operates at the seam between Israeli-Jewish and Muslim-Palestinian society, Israeli-Arabs complicate our understanding of the traditional binaries between Jewish and Muslim, and Israeli and Palestinian. Sayed Kashua's 2006 novel "Let It Be Morning," examines the Israeli-Arab position in Israeli society and reveals ultimately that the aforementioned dichotomies are more fluid than we may have first imagined.

Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-Arab writer, journalist, and screenwriter, was born in the Israeli-Arab town of Tira in 1975. He writes exclusively in Hebrew, perhaps for practicality, having been educated at an elite Hebrew-operating Jerusalem boarding school for gifted teens and later at Hebrew University. Or perhaps he writes in Hebrew for ideological reasons, to close the linguistic and cultural divide between Jews and Muslims living in Israel. Either way, Kashua’s choice to write in Hebrew is a complicated one and does not simply represent the usual reality of a citizen writing in the language of his state. To the contrary, Hebrew is the language of the Jewish people, not his own, and as such it holds enormous cultural, historical, religious and national significance for Israeli-Jews as well as Jews worldwide. Of course, Hebrew also bears political significance, having become closely intertwined with Zionist movements of Europe in the late 19th and 20th centuries. One might assert, then, that Kashua’s choice to write in Hebrew as an Arab indicates his successful integration into Israeli society, and perhaps a yielding to or acceptance of the Zionist narrative and the legitimacy of the state of Israel. And yet, as A.J. Drijvers states in his 2015 thesis, “When it comes to the classification of Hebrew literature written by Israeli Arabs there is no scholarly consensus on whether these works belong to the body of Palestinian literature or whether they belong to the body of Israeli literature” (9). That the works of Israeli-Arabs would even be considered Palestinian is telling of the distinction or non-distinction between the two groups: that by standards of religion and ethnicity, and specifically not geography, Israeli-Arabs and Palestinians have close ties and are, in fact, even members of the same family in many cases. What Kashua expresses, then, by writing in Hebrew is a complex picture of what it means to be an Israeli-Arab, a simultaneous insider and outsider of both groups embodied by that label."

In his second novel, Let It Be Morning, Kashua explores these identities and describes the practical manifestations of the various tensions between them. After returning to his hometown village with his wife and baby after living and working as a journalist in Jewish Jerusalem, the unnamed protagonist is bewildered along with everyone else when the village is besieged by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). As the besiegement continues to strangle the village day after day, life inside becomes nearly anarchical as theft becomes rampant and gangs begin to exert control by force. Ultimately the blockade is uplifted, and life returns to normal, except for the fact that the village was part of land-swap between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and is now located in the new state of Palestine, all of which further confuses for the villagers their already-unclear nationalist loyalties.
The protagonist himself, an Israeli-Arab, is the object of constant suspicion and feelings of betrayal throughout the novel by both Israeli-Jewss and Israeli-Arabs. As the Second Intifada, a period of armed and deadly conflict from 2000-2004, rages on, the protagonist begins to encounter racism against Arabs in Israel. He confronts graffiti calling for Arab deportation, becomes subject to harsher editorial checks by his editor-in-chief, and security guards start to frisk him more carefully than his Jewish counterparts. Arabs, he explains, are viewed by Jews as an insidious fifth column, a parasitic force that is eating away at the very Jewish fabric of the state. As the situation worsens, no longer can he criticize the Israeli government, he says, such a thing became “an exclusively Jewish prerogative” (20). The protagonist experiences shame, resentment, and even guilt, for the Arab suicide bombers, the “cold-blooded murders…, God, the virgins, paradise” and himself, for surrendering himself to such overt racism (21). At a certain point the cognitive dissonance becomes too overbearing. The journalist needs to clarify his loyalties to himself and escape the tensions that living and working as an Arab in Jewish-Israel brings. So he returns with his family back to his hometown Arab village, a place that unbeknownst to him at the time is relatively impoverished, rife with crime, and virtually absent of social and economic advancement.

The Israeli-Arab’s in the village, living under democratic Israeli rule, try to rationalize and understand the Israeli military’s rather unusual besiegement of their village, which is reminiscent of any Kafka novel and the utter confusion that his characters’ experience in their absurd situations. It is especially confusing to them because the Israeli-Arabs, on the whole, view themselves as loyal, upstanding citizens. At first the protagonist’s family and others believe that the besiegement may be part of a covert Israeli operation to arrest someone inside, someone who is perhaps devising a terrorist attack. The protagonist’s father suggests that the Israeli military will enter the village in the middle of the night, with two jeeps, and leave without a word. It’ll be easy, he says, “[c]ause [sic] there’s no way you can keep anything hidden in this village. Nobody gives a damn and everybody cooperates with the police and the security forces. It stopped being considered betrayal long ago” (93). In this way, the Arabs trust the Israelis, or at least cede to their demands. Later, however, just before a mob storms the protagonist’s home for food, he is rebuked with disdain by the local supermarket owner. After the protagonist denies having any food in his home, the supermarket owner yells out, “The guy you [the mob] are talking to bought out half my store…People at his newspaper must have told him [of the approaching besiegement]” (224). In this way, the protagonist is viewed by the Arabs as a traitor, someone who left home and acculturated to Jewish Israeli society at the expense of his own people. In this position, torn between the urban Jews and village Muslims, he feels like an outsider in both societies.

As an important side note, Sayed Kashua himself, during the summer of 2014, left Hebrew altogether for English (He had already abandoned Arabic at the age of 14.) Now he teaches at the University of Illinois. Just before he picked up his things and emigrated with the family, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, he penned a rather tragic article in Haaretz explaining his decision to leave. “I will write in English,” he says, about “love stories” and “the weather…Snow will be a central character.” The burden became too heavy, the stress too demanding. In a Guardian article that same summer, he elaborates to say that the little war he had been waging for coexistence as an Israeli-Arab to Hebrew-speaking Israel had utterly failed. “Twenty-five years of writing in Hebrew, and nothing has changed,” he writes. “Twenty-five years clutching at the hope, believing it is not possible that people can be so blind,” but they were, and he failed, he says. He mentions Palestinian boy Mohammed Abu Khdeir who was killed by an Israeli-Jewish terrorists following the kidnapping and subsequent murder of three Israeli-Jewish boys, and how, with the flare of anti-Arab sentiment in Israel, he had already felt exiled and obliged to emigrate. That autumn, in October, Kashua exchanged a series of letters with Israeli-Jewish author Etgar Keret that The New Yorker published. They shed additional light upon the motivations behind Kashua’s emigration, which was ultimately prompted by the fact that he saw no sustainable future in Israel for children and that his own career endeavoring to communicate the Israeli-Arab experience to the Israeli-Jewish public had been in vain. “This summer, the last vestiges of hope in my heart were crushed,” he writes to Keret. But, at least in Let it Be Morning, Kashua’s protagonist holds out and continues to operate with one foot, so to speak, in both the Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Jewish societies of which he is a part.

Another prime function of Kashua’s novel is to humanize Arab society, exposing both its patriarchal nature and anti-Semitism, while also jettisoning the yellow-license-plate (Israeli) and green-license-plate (Palestinian) dichotomy for a far more nuanced understanding of these different but overlapping groups. One theory that the Arab village concocts in Kashua’s novel to explain the IDF’s besiegement is social and economic: that there are many Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza working illegally in the village. As a result, the mayor as well as the gangs, decide to gather all these workers and submit them to the Israeli military, which stands at the village entrance with foot soldiers, tanks, and a full blockade. The first illegal worker who walks across is shot, and the same with the second, but the mayor is convinced this is because the military assumed they might be holding bombs. Thus he orders them to strip down to their undergarments, at which point the workers continue to cross. Another one is shot. Now they realize, ironically, that it is not the illegal Palestinian workers that the Israelis want. No one knows what they want, or if they want anything at all. But what’s remarkable about this passage is not the villagers’ ignorance but rather how quickly the Israeli-Arab’s distinguish themselves from the illegal Palestinians, thus revealing in reality that these two groups perhaps identify as distinct, though usually conflated by the Israeli public and even Arab members of Knesset, Israel’s parliament.
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Nov 08, 2007 Sunshine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Update: after finishing it, I'm rounding it out at a solid 4 stars. It gets better and better and proves its narrative construction.

I'm still reading this, so the # of stars is up for revision, but for now it's a 3-star.

The narrator is very interesting, as is the situation. An Israeli Arab who's a journalist for an Israeli paper (their "arab" guy) who gradually gets marginalized at the paper as Palestinian-Israeli relations worsen and whose Arab village eventually gets blockaded indefinitely. I ...more

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Oct 26, 2014 Etha Frenkel rated it liked it · review of another edition

A very disturbing book on several levels. First, the horrible, kafkesque predicament the village unexpectedly and inexplicably finds itself in. Second, the narrator/protagonist and his negative attitude to everything. If there is a natural tendency to identify and sympathize with him he systematically destroys this. This includes the grotesque picture of the Arab village which he draws. All negative. At first I was relieved that at least his immediate family came out all right but then the memor ...more

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Feb 23, 2014 Jaana Ylikangas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Different from the columns in Haaretz that I´ve been following for years and grew tired of. I have to admit that I read the book between the lines all the time. This is many books in one, as stated in at least another review. I also conceived it as other fates than the Palestinian. I had a philosophical problem I didn´t know of. This is a book that I needed but didn´t know it. It doesn´t seem like an important book but it is, at least for me. I haven´t been ignorant to start with so I´m startled ...more

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Dec 18, 2015 Zack is currently reading it · review of another edition

Shelves: school

This book was a good book. I thought it started a little slow but it was needed for background information and leading in. Once you got past the beginning the book was good. I could not relate to the author very well but it was interesting in the way the story was told and his thinking through the challenges that he had and the things he did. The setting was interesting and was cool to see a person's view and thinking of what it is like in his village. Overall it was an okay book.
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Mar 31, 2015 Claire rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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I just could not officially finish this book. I'm still not officially sure how to do this properly... ...more

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Jul 24, 2016 Samar Dahmash Jarrah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

No one consulted the Palestinians on the Peace Process. No one cared. This is what I think this story is about.

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Sep 04, 2012 Arda rated it liked it · review of another edition

A friend of mine read this book before I did and said: “I cannot believe the way he talks about his wife. It’s humiliating. Does she even KNOW he writes these things about her? Most probably not, right? I cannot imagine her READING this stuff and choose to still BE with him!”

I was having similar thoughts while reading this seemingly autobiographical narrative. This guy is quite unlikable. He’s paranoid, needy and untrustworthy. He is low in principles and high in opportunism. Sure, sure, there a ...more

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Nov 12, 2018 Yuri Meshman rated it really liked it · review of another edition

An interesting story with post-apocalyptic elements. And, it has an English translation.

Maybe I will be able to write a review later. For now, my semi-connected ponderings:

It is fascinating to see the "us vs. them" argument when I am on the side of the "them".
It is a reality which I don't think I am allowed to relate to, and yet I think I understand it...
And, I guess that it was intended to be so by the author, given that he writes about an Arab village in Israel, and chooses to do so in Hebrew ...more

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Feb 07, 2018 Renee rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I really didn’t enjoy reading this book. The subject matter is not enjoyable and the writing style left me cold. I found the style of writing extremely wooden and am not sure whether this is his style or whether it has anything to do with the translator. I didn’t like the main character – I didn’t enjoy the way he spoke to his wife and felt he had no backbone. Whilst the subject matter is difficult and heart-rending, it just didn’t touch me emotionally, unlike Mornings in Jenin, due to the writi ...more

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Jan 26, 2018 Jennifer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This novel is hard to describe. Fantasy fable about the cognitive dissonance of being an Israeli Arab is the closest I can get. The writing is deceptively simple—the more I think about it, the more thematically artful and complex I see it is. The story takes place over less than a week, but during a time of extreme tumult for the characters and their community. And I think that’s all I can (or should) say, other than read it!

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Feb 28, 2018 Holly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

An important and timely book about how quickly the 'othering' of minorities can lead to humanitarian disasters, and the sense of futility and frustration that comes from living as a member of a minority in such a society. While the book is specifically about Israeli Arabs and their relationship to the state, the lessons can and should be applied more broadly in countries wallowing in the throes of nationalism. ...more

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Jan 14, 2019 John Parks rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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May 07, 2019 Diego Palomino rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Well done

Not knowing much about Palestinian life I found d this book very enlightening. I stated reading and could not stop until I was finished. Well written, the author built the tension until it explodes, I felt the stress the characters in the story were feeling. I look forward to reading more from this writer.

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Aug 13, 2019 Barbara O'brien rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: diverse-author-setting, literary-fiction, muslim, israel-palestine-1990-s

The heart-breaking, harrowing novel depicts a family of Israeli Palestinians before, during, and after the Oslo accords. Frustrations abound.Let It Be Morning ...more

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Aug 19, 2017 Jan Baugh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Excellent read, really able to feel the emotions of the main character. Almost felt I was there with him.

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Apr 21, 2018 Eli rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Amazing book, great hyporbolic storyline, awesome thought-provoking ending saved for the very last pages. Real talent.

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May 13, 2018 Lana rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Meh. Sayed Kashua is a sufficiently talented writer, but all his books are the same. The plot, characters, struggles, everything.

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Jan 10, 2019 Golan Schzukin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-hebrew, have-hebrew

I have enjoyed every book of Sayed so far

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Apr 25, 2019 Carly Vair rated it liked it · review of another edition

An important story somewhat dulled by a repetitive writing style and unlikeable narrator.

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Feb 25, 2021 Abigail Blake rated it liked it · review of another edition

It was an interesting book about a topic I did not know much about. You could feel the tension in the writing.

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May 09, 2010 Jim Leffert rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the second novel (published in 2004) by Sayed Kashua, an Israeli Arab who has also created a popular show on Israeli television, Arab Labor, which pokes fun at relationships between Israeli Jews and Arabs. The protagonist narrator is a 28-year old Israeli Arab journalist, employed by a Hebrew language newspaper in Tel-Aviv. Feeling increasingly marginalized and rejected by the mainstream Israeli society in the wake of the Second Intifada, he retreats from Tel Aviv to his home village, dr ...more

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Mar 01, 2015 Tony rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Much like the protagonist of this unsettling novel, the author is an Israeli Arab who has worked as a journalist for a liberal Israeli newspaper (Ha'aretz). When he becomes a father, he moves his wife and baby from Tel Aviv back to their home village, where life is instantly claustrophobic. At first, the noose is social, as their world shrinks from the cross-cultural cosmopolitanism of Tel Aviv, to the insular world of extended family in a small village. Then, when the Israeli Army seals the vil ...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Jayne Charles rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a slow burner, but well worth sticking with. At the start it appeared to be about an Arab, living in Israel, who exudes dissatisfaction about everything - his career, his home village, the city where he used to live, his parents, his wife....the list goes on. As the story progressed, I found it increasingly informative. I like a book that challenges my ignorance - and for starters I didn't realise there were Arabs who counted themselves Israeli citizens, and were happy to remain so. Thi ...more

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Jan 01, 2010 Kireja rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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1) This book highlights what it is like to be an Arab-Israeli and the complexities of being an Arab-Israeli living in a Jewish city. The protagonist displays a sense of regret when he states "how I hate myself for trying to believe I was really one of them...I never managed to feel like I was one of them. They always made me feel like an outsider" (170). At one point he feels sorry for the Arab-Israelis, who are in denial about the blockade, because they believe in their Citizenship. There is al ...more

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Sep 02, 2013 Andy Oram rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I find three different books inside this one, all inducing the sense of relentless despair appropriate to the source of the book's title (Deuteronomy 28:67). The first aspect of the book is a paranoid, Kafkaesque story of a siege that represents--in a highly exaggerated form--the indignations and oppression that Palestinian Arabs feel, not only in Israel but in the rest of the world. The second aspect, which is my favorite, is an invented memoir retelling the main narrator's struggles as a child ...more

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Czech name version: Sajjid Kašua.
Slovak name version: Said Kašua

Sayed Kashua (Arabic: سيد قشوع‎, Hebrew: סייד קשוע‎; b. 1975) is an Israeli-Arab author and journalist born in Tira, Israel, known for his books and humoristic columns in Hebrew.

هو كاتب وصحفي فلسطيني إسرائيلي يعيش في القدس ويكتب بالعبرية. ولد سيد قشوع في مدينة الطيرة، مدينة عربية وسط إسرائيل، لأب يعمل موظفا في البنك ولأم تعمل معلمة. ه ...more