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Product Identifiers

PublisherSyracuse University Press

ISBN-10081560646X

ISBN-139780815606468

eBay Product ID (ePID)28038758356

Product Key Features

Original LanguageArabic

Book TitleIn Search of Walid Masoud : a Novel

Number of Pages302 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Political, General, Literary

Publication Year2000

GenreFiction

AuthorJabra Ibrahim Jabra

Book SeriesMiddle East Literature in Translation Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN00-028493

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThe perspective this novel offers not only on the problem of Palestine but also on the Arab world is a revelation., Jabra's characters, like Simone de Beauvoir's set in Paris, or New York intellectuals of the 1950s, thrive on brilliant rationalizations of their own narcissism, while the humanism they affect is doomed to political impotence.

Dewey Decimal892.7/36

SynopsisWalid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, suspicion arises that he has gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a lengthy but disconnected tape recording of garbled utterances through which Jabra Ibrahim Jabra artfully crafts the basis for the narration. He transforms the transcription of the tape by each of Masoud's comrades into a study of character. Through a series of monologues, each becomes a narrator of his own experience. Readers of The Ship (also translated by Adnan Haydar and Roger Allen) will remember the ingenious way the political themes emerge through the dialogue between passengers on a ship crossing the Mediterranean from the Arab to the European world. This novel echoes identical subjects: the misperceptions between Western and Islamic cultures, personal landscape as a shaper of culture, and the necessity of political commitment. A tour de force that places the evolution of the Faulknerian style into a political register, this book is a testament to the brilliance of one of Palestine's preeminent writers., When Palestinian intellectual, Walid Masoud disappears, suspicion arises that he may have gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a lengthy tape recording which is transcribed by each of his comrades in a series of monologues narrating their own experiences.

LC Classification NumberPJ7840.A322B3413