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Language
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Book Summary
This is a translated poetry collection, an elegy that threads life, death, memory, and homeland into a luminous meditation. It speaks to readers who relish lyric poetry and thoughtful, world-spanning themes, offering a contemplative, intimate tonal quality that feels both personal and expansive. Award-winning in translation, the volume invites reflection on love, exile, history, and belonging at a moment when mortality feels close.
Presented as a sequence of lyric meditations, the book preserves the cadence and resonance of the original while inviting English-language readers to experience its musicality. The translatorโs craft shines in the delicate balance between spare lineation and lush imagery, creating scenes that feel both intimate and universal. Readers travel through memory and place, moving from intimate scenes to broader reflections on community and history.
Reading this collection invites slowing down and listening aloud. Its meditative pace rewards careful attention and repeated revisits, with motifs of love, home, exile, friendship, and family reappearing in fresh configurations. The blend of personal voice and collective memory makes the experience feel like a conversation across time and distance, inviting readers to bring their own experiences into the text.
After finishing, readers gain a deeper sense of memoryโs reach and a strengthened appreciation for languageโs power to bridge absence and presence. The collection nurtures empathy, curiosity, and a contemplative mindset, leaving a lasting impression of resilience, hope, and the enduring pull of belonging.
Product Details
Author
Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Number of Pages
200
Language
English
SKU
9781935744016
ISBN
9781935744016
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
15.5x1.1x17.8cm
Binding
Paperback
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