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The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam

The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam

Author(s): Elias Khoury

Location(s): Palestine, New York City (NYC)

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Mid 20th Century

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A moving story about Palestine’s 1948 Exodus by the Arab world’s finest living novelist. First in a trilogy.

Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changes everything. As he investigates exactly what occurred in 1948 in Lydda, the city of his birth, he gathers stories that speak to his people’s bravery, ingenuity, and resolve in the face of unimaginable hardship.

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Author: Tina Hartas

A fictitious version of the author Elias Khoury receives an unpublished manuscript from an author who committed suicide, and decides to go ahead and publish. The result is an intensely introspective novel that often...

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