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02330aam a2200373 i 4500 001 403A8FF0072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210804t20212021enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 0857428934 020 $a 9780857428936 035 $a (OCoLC)1263812561 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d BDX $d OCLCF $d WZW $d YDX $d OCL $d OCLCO $d CDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OTP $d PAU $d IaU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ara 050 4 $a PJ7950.U8327 $b S5713 2021 082 04 $a 892.7/37 $2 23 100 1 $a Musallam, Akram, $e author. 240 10 $a SiÌrat al-Ê»aqrab alladhiÌ yatasÌ£abbabu Ê»araqan. $l English 245 14 $a The dance of the deep-blue scorpion / $c Akram Musallam ; translated by Sawad Hussain. 264 1 $a London ; $b Seagull Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 129 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a The Arab list 520 $a An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor. On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his father's amputated leg, dreaming nightly of a haunting scorpion, witnessing the powerful aura of his mountain-lodging aunt. His work in progress is a meditation on absence, loss, and emptiness. He poses deep questions: What does it mean to exist? How can you confirm the existence of a place, a person, a limb? How do we engage with what is no longer there? Absurd at times, raw at others, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion explores Palestinian identity through Akram Musallam's extended metaphors in the hope of transcending the loss of territory and erasure of history. 500 $a "Originally published as SiÌrat al-Ê»aqrab alladhiÌ yatasÌ£abbabu Ê»araqan, 2008"--Title page verso. 546 $a Translated from the Arabic 650 0 $a Palestinian Arabs $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Palestinian Arabs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01051590 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2015026020 700 1 $a Hussain, Sawad, $e translator. 830 0 $a Arab list. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030913.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=403A8FF0072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search