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Years ago, three young men, fired with idealism for Palestine's second Intifada and fuelled by hashish, ventured on a clandestine transaction that left just one of them standing. Guns from Israel - bound for Gaza - in exchange for Egyptian hashish. Many years later, the fight for freedom from Israel's brutal occupation flared into another Israeli onslaught - another `war'. Amidst the bombardment of Gaza in 2014 - dreams and miracles were shattered for Farida and Fathi, caught in the clash of religious ideologies and the struggle to wrest or retain power. At the same time angels brought two hearts together and when these lovers met, as in the Arabic phrase, their eyes saw no flaw. In their first pre-dawn encounter at a checkpoint queue, Adnan and Linah, on opposite sides of authority, had their minds convulsed and their eyes bloodied as a delirious young man was gunned down in the yellow-lit darkness of the night. She was an Israeli soldier on guard, he was a Palestinian commuter. While love blossomed, his friend Ali was served the cruellest of fates to embark down the long dark road of revenge. What is Past is Dead, Twenty-two Years to Life and The Palace of Angels are stories of fighting for freedom by fighting with our defined selves. Behind Palestine's struggle for self-determination are beautiful faces, not normally revealed in war. We are made to question how we find out who we really are and what we wish to become. They are the stories of the seeds of peace and co-existence, yearning to come to life on both sides of the fence, to break through the overburden of noxious politics. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The Palace of Angels consists of three linked novellas, What's is Past is Dead; Twenty Two Years to Life and The Palace of Angels. What's Past is Dead is a prequel: it's about two youths trading hashish for weapons for the Palestinian side. Their plans are reckless and naïve, but their life experience is not. They have seen the capriciousness of death and they know, as all Palestinians know, that their side is and always will be outclassed militarily. To fight back and assert your rights means putting your life on the line. Submitting to the Occupation means tolerating the daily humiliations without complaint. This region is full of volatile young people on both sides. It's only too easy for patience to snap, with devastating consequences.
Twenty Two Years to a Life contrasts Palestinian life with the lives we take for granted. Fathi and Farid fall in love and marry, but they have trouble starting a family. They save up to seek medical help, endure an exhaustive process of getting passports and visas, and finally make it to Canada for specialist help, only to find themselves stranded with little English. They are helped by a Canadian man who recognises their plight, the irony being that they have to travel thousands of miles to get help that ought to be accessible to them closer to home. Given the recurring patterns of violent strike and counter-strike, what happens to this little family seems inevitable but is no less heart-breaking for that...
Later on, in The Palace of Dreams it becomes clearer that life under any occupation is full of invidious choices. Ultimately there is no choice but to choose.
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