Το Βιβλίο της Εξαφάνισης
Ibtisam Azem, 2018
A young Palestinian in Tel Aviv keeps his grandmother's Jaffa stories while the city around him empties; a quiet novel about who a city remembers.
Ibtisam Azem
Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian writer and journalist from Jaffa who edits the Arabic-language magazine Al-Shabaka. The novel appeared in English as The Book of Disappearance. Italian: «Ibtisam Azem è una scrittrice e giornalista palestinese originaria di Giaffa, curatrice della rivista in lingua araba Al-Shabaka. Il romanzo è uscito in inglese col titolo The Book of Disappearance.»
Feels like memory, family and tenderness.
The questions we never got to ask outlive the person we meant them for.
Μιὰ μέρα τὴ ρώτησα ἂν τὸ μαργαριταρένιο περιδέραιο ἦταν δῶρο τοῦ παπποῦ μου, καὶ τότε ἐκείνη γέλασε παράξενα ἀλλὰ δὲν ἀπάντησε. Κι ὅταν τὴ ρώτησα πότε ἀκριβῶς ἔσπασε τὸ περιδέραιο, καὶ πάλι δὲν πῆρα ἀπάντηση, παρὰ μόνο μοῦ εἶπε μουρμουρίζοντας: «Τόσοι ἄνθρωποι ἔϕυγαν ἀπ ᾽τὴ ζωή, ἀγαπούλα μου, χῶρες καταστράϕηκαν κι ἐσὺ μὲ ρωτᾶς γιὰ τὰ μαργαριτάρια; ᾽αλλὰ ϕτάνει γιὰ ἀπόψε, μὲ κούρασαν αὐτὲς οἱ ἐρωτήσεις». Μακάρι νὰ συνέχιζα νὰ τὴ ρωτῶ. Μακάρι νὰ τὴν εἶχα ρωτήσει περισσότερα γιὰ τὴ ζωή της. Books by Ibtisam Azem
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