Sahar Khalifeh Libri

'Afaf è una borghese, prigioniera di convenzioni ormai messe in crisi dalla realtà dei tempi, ma non per questo meno oppressive. Dopo alcuni scoppi di ribellione che il marito punisce con l'isolamento e il disprezzo, 'Afaf, impaurita ma finalmente decisa a nonn cedere, intraprende un viaggio verso il paese d'origine, la Palestina occupata dall'esercito israeliano. Là ritrova la madre e un'amica coinvolta nella militanza politica. 'Afaf trova il coraggio di divorziare per iniziare un nuovo capitolo della propria vita, e percorre molte strade, a volte contraddittorie, dall'amore all'arte dal viaggio nella memoria familiare all'impegno politico, riconoscendo che il suo conflitto personale s'intreccia con il contesto palestinese degli anni recenti.

A deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl's eyes by acclaimed writer, Sahar Khalifeh, called "the Virginia Woolf of Palestinian literature" (Börsenblatt) After many decades of restless exile, Nadal returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba that scattered her family across the globe. She was a young girl when the popular resistance began and, through the bloodshed and bitter struggle, Nidal fell in love with Rabie, a freedom fighter. He was her first and only real love--him and all that he represented: Palestine in its youth and spring, the resistance fighters in the hills, the nation as embodied in her family home and in the land. Years later, Nidal and Rabie meet, and he encourages her to read her uncle Amin's memoirs. She immerses herself in the details of her family and national past and discovers that her absent mother had been nurse and lover to Palestinian leader Abdel-Qader al-Husseini. Set in the final days of the British Mandate, Sahar Khalifeh spins an epic tale filled with emotional urgency and political immediacy.

Wild Thorns has been hailed as the first Arab novel to offer a glimpse of social and personal relations under Israeli occupation. Featuring unsentimental portrayals of everyday life, its deep sincerity, uncompromising honesty and rich emotional core plead elegantly for the cause of survival in the face of oppression.

Belletristik : Israel/Westjordanland/Palästinenser ; politischer Konflikt - kulturelle Identität.

Sie wächst auf als Tochter eines Schulinspektors, und durch ihre Verheiratung wird sie zur Händlersgattin. Sie lebt in einer Welt, in der der Mann das Juwel des Hauses, der Schmuck der Schwestern und der Augapfel der Familie ist. In der Leere, Enge und quälenden Einsamkeit ihres Ehelebens verliert sie sogar die Fähigkeit zu träumen, taugt bald nicht mehr zum Leben, wird zu einem Häufchen Asche. Als sie Jahre später und gegen tausend Ängste ihren Mann verlässt, steht sie vor dem Nichts. Erst nach vielen Kämpfen erkennt sie, dass ihre Gefühle im Recht sind und der Stolz eine Lebensgrundlage ist. Dieser sehr persönliche Roman hat durch seine Offenheit in der arabischen Welt Aufsehen erregt: Eine Generation von Frauen hat sich in ihm wiedererkannt.