Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba image
Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba image

Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba

Books | Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies

Mazen Maarouf
Tasnim Abutabikh
Emad El-Din Aysha
Selma Dabbagh
Saleem Haddad
Anwar Hamed
Majd Kayyal
Abdalmuti Maqboul
Ahmed Masoud
Talal Abu Shawish
Rawan Yaghi
Samir El-Youssef
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians?Covering a range of approaches – from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever.Translated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright. WINNER of a PEN Translates Award 2018.One of NPR's Favourite Books of 2019.'It's necessary, of course. But above all it's bold, brilliant and inspiring: a sign of boundless imagination and fierce creation even in circumstances of oppression, denial, silencing and constriction. The voices of these writers demand to be heard - and their stories are defiantly entertaining.' - Bidisha'This worthy collection excavates and probes, and reacquaints the west with the horrors of Palestinian existence right now.' - Middle East Eye'Just as we do when Handmaids Tale or Black Mirror plots unfold on the screen, you are most likely to read Palestine +100 and say, this is now.' - Lithub
AD
Buy now:
More Details:
Author
Mazen Maarouf
Pages
240
Publisher
Comma Press
Published Date
2019-07-25
ISBN
1912697203 9781912697205

Discussions

LATEST