Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua
In his debut, Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua established himself as one of the most daring voices of the Middle East. In his searing new novel, a young Arab journalist returns to his hometown -- an Arab village within Israel -- where his already vexed sense of belonging is forced to crisis when the village becomes a pawn in the never-ending power struggle that is the Middle East. Hoping to reclaim the simplicity of life among kin, the prodigal son returns home to find that nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people are petty and provincial. But when Israeli tanks surround the village without warning or explanation, everyone inside is cut off from the outside world. As the situation grows increasingly dire, the village devolves into a Darwinian jungle, where paranoia quickly takes hold and threatens the community's fragile equilibrium. With the enduring moral and literary power of Camus and Orwell, Let It Be Morning offers an intimate, eye-opening portrait of the conflicted allegiances of the Israeli Arabs, proving once again that Sayed Kashua is a fearless, prophetic observer of a political and human quagmire that offers no easy answers.Sayed Kashua is a Palestinian Arab who lived in Jerusalem until July 2014, after which he relocated to Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. DANCING ARABS (2002), LET IT BE MORNING (2004), and SECOND PERSON SINGULAR (2010) are his three novels. Kashua is the creator and script writer of the critically acclaimed satiric television series Arab Labor and writes a weekly column for Haaretz. In July 2014, the Jerusalem International Film Festival premiered DANCING ARABS, a film based on that novel and in part, SECOND PERSON SINGULAR. Kashua has received various honors, including the 2004 Grinzane Cavour Award for First Novel (Italy), the 2005 Prime Minister's Prize (Israel), the 2006 Lessing Prize for Critic (Germany), the 2010 SFJFF Freedom of Speech Award (USA), the 2011 Bernstein Prize (Israel), and the 2012 Prix des Lecteurs du Var (France).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802170217 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802170218 |
| Title | Let It Be Morning |
| Author | Sayed Kashua |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Black Cat |
| Year published | 2006-05-12 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008 |
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