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03221aam a2200457 i 4500 001 BC707162CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190905010153 008 190408t20192019nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019016085 020 $a 0815611110 020 $a 9780815611110 035 $a (OCoLC)1078885113 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d PUL $d VP@ $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ara 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-is--- 050 00 $a PJ7914 Z35 S54 2019 100 1 $a Ê»AÌzim, IbtisaÌm, $d 1974- $e author. 240 10 $a Sifr al-ikhtifa'. $l English 245 14 $a The book of disappearance : $b a novel / $c Ibtisam Azem ; translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Syracuse, New York : $b Syracuse University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 242 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Middle East Literature In Translation 500 $a "Originally published in Arabic as Sifr al-Ikhtifa' (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2014)"--Title page verso. 520 $a "What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist struggling to understand the traumatic event. Through these perspectives, the novel stages a confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, but nevertheless believes in Israel's project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel's search for clues to the secret of the collective disappearance and his reaction to it intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. The Book of Disappearance grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon's translation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel."--Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the Arabic. 650 0 $a Palestinian Arabs $z Israel $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Missing persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Survival $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Israel $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Antoon, Sinan, $d 1967- $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ê»AÌzim, IbtisaÌm, 1974- author. $t Book of disappearance $b First edition. $d Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2019 $z 9780815654834 $w (DLC) 2019017760 830 0 $a Middle East literature in translation 941 $a 3 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629014502.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103014434.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213020542.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC707162CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search