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Cactus is about war and revolution. Palestine is described as a society under assault from the outside and the inside. It is an accurate portrayal of a society under siege that can provide real historical insight. The text is provocative in both diction and themes. Khalifeh's writing style engages the reader, highlighting multiple senses in various scenes. One of the most compelling components of the text are the various forms of resistance that include spoken, violent resistance, seldom used by Arab women writers. The novel focuses on the story of the Al-Karmi family, in particular that of Usama, the idealistic Palestinian expatriate who has returned home charged with a resistance mission to blow up Israeli busses that carry Palestinian laborers who work in Israeli factories. The novel also recounts the story of Usamas' cousin Adil, a Palestinian laborer working in an Israeli factory to provide for his family and his ailing father. The book provides a realistic and uncompromising view of life under Israeli occupation and the issues facing both Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories and abroad.
About the Author: Sahar Khalifeh Is considered the foremost Palestinian author and feminists in the Arab world, widely acclaimed for being the first feminist Palestinian writer, and for her sensitive, economical and lucid style. Her fame extends beyond Palestinian and Arab boarders, as her translations in many languages attest. After the defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 war against Israel, and in the midst of what Khalifeh describes as a "miserable, devastating" marriage, Khalifeh began to write her first novel and severed her marriage against of the norms of both her family and Palestinian society. The Arab defeat in the war of 1967 spurred Khalifeh towards new modes of thinking and creativity which led her greatly towards furthering her writing career. Praise from the Press Sahar Khalifeh "is the Virginia Woolf of Palestinian - Arabic literature." Borsenblatt "Her characters are so real you can actually relate to them by mistaking them for someone you know." The Daily Star - Jordan "The one Arab novelist who has written one novel after another to show the inseparability of feminist issues from social and political concerns is the Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh, whom I consider the best Arab woman novelist in the twentieth century." Professor Buthaina Shaaban


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781497540682
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Arabic
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1497540682
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2014
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Series Title: Arabic
  • Weight: 354 gr

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