Track Changes by Sayed Kashua
Hailed as an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents his masterful fourth novel Track Changes which follows an Arab-Israeli man as he reckons with the weight of his past, his memories, and his cultural identity.
Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family's side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally displaced, he feels more alienated from his life than ever. Sitting by his father's hospital bed, the memoirist begins to remember long-buried traumas, the root causes of his fallout with his family, the catalyst for his marriage and its recent dissolution, and his strained relationships with his children--all of which is strangely linked to a short story he published years ago about a young girl named Palestine. As he plunges deeper into his memory and recounts the history of his land and his love, the lines between truth and lies, fact and fiction become increasingly blurred. Track Changes is a stunningly original, poignant, and captivating exploration of alienation, love, country, and memory by one of the most important writers at work today.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 | 9780802147899 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802147895 |
| Title | Track Changes |
| Author | Sayed Kashua |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2020-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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