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SUMMARY:TMR Book Club Discusses Omar Khalifah's "Sand-Catcher" with special guests
DESCRIPTION:Sign up to participate here \nJoin us on Sunday\, September 28th at 1pm EST/ 6pm UK/ 7pm CET to discuss Omar Khalifah’s Sand-Catcher with special guests! \nAbout the book: \nA sardonic\, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted. Omar Khalifa’s debut novel Sand-Catcher is at once a polyphonic satire and a tightly plotted tale of suspense. Walking the line between gallows humor\, rage\, and depthless heartbreak\, it is a unique reflection of contemporary Palestinian identity in all its facets. \nFour young\, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked\, on account of their heritage\, with profiling one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba\, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. Confident that the old man will be all too happy to go on record\, the reporters are nonplussed when they are repeatedly\, and obscenely\, rebuffed. This living witness to history\, this secular saint\, has no desire to be interviewed\, no desire for his memories to be preserved\, no desire to serve as an inspiration for the youth of tomorrow. What he wants is to be left alone. \nAs threats from the team’s editor-in-chief put more and more pressure on the journalists\, they must decide just how far they’re willing to go to get the old man on the record. After all\, what possible weight can one stubborn demand for privacy have when balanced against the imperative to bear witness? \nPublished by Coffee House Press\, 2024. \nAbout the author & translator:\nOmar Khalifah (author) is a novelist and short story writer in Arabic. His book\, Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary\, was published in English by Edinburgh University Press in 2017. His collection Ka’annani Ana (As If I Were Myself) was published in Amman\, Jordan in 2010\, and his novel Qabid al-Raml (Sand-Catcher) was published in 2020. His articles have appeared in Middle East Critique and Journal of World Literature. A Fulbright scholar\, Khalifah is assistant professor of Arabic Literature and Culture at Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar. \nBarbara Romaine is an academic and literary translator. She has published translations of five novels\, most recently Waiting for the Past (Syracuse University Press\, 2022)\, by the Iraqi novelist Hadiya Hussein. She has held two NEA fellowships in translation\, one of which was for her work on Radwa Ashour's Spectres (Interlink Books\, 2011). Spectres went on to place second in the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal international translation competition. Romaine’s translations of essays\, short stories\, and classical poetry have appeared in a variety of literary periodicals. \nSign up to participate here
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