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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.
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:132 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:28/01/2022
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- ISBN:9780857428936
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:132 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:28/01/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857428936
