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My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness

A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

by Adina Hoffman
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/04/2009

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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 one leading American critic 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.
ISBN:
9780300141504
9780300141504
Category:
Biography: literary
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-04-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
464
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x34mm
Weight:
0.82kg
Adina Hoffman

Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, winner of the 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.

She is also the author, with Peter Cole, of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which was named the American Library Association's Jewish Book of the Year.

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2013. She divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.

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