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Find more info., search and price compare for My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman Binding: Hardcover, 464 pages Publisher: Yale University Press Weight: 1.75 pound Dimension: H: 1.5 x L: 9.3 x W: 6.3 inches ISBN 10: 0300141505 ISBN 13: 9780300141504 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon and returned a year later to find his village destroyed. An autodidact, he has since run a souvenir shop in Nazareth, at the same time evolving into what National Book Critics Circle Award winner Eliot Weinberger has dubbed perhaps the most accessible and delightful poet alive today. As it places Muhammad Ali s life in the context of the lives of his predecessors and peers, My Happiness offers a sweeping depiction of a charged and fateful epoch. It is a work that Arabic scholar Michael Sells describes as among the five must read books on the Israel Palestine tragedy. In an era when talk of the Clash of Civilizations dominates, this biography offers something else entirely: a view of the people and culture of the Middle East that is rich, nuanced, and, above all else, deeply human. |
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