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When The Bulbul Stopped Singing

By Raja Shehadeh & Colum McCann
When The Bulbul Stopped Singing by Raja Shehadeh & Colum McCann digital book - Fable

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'Palestine's greatest prose writer' Observer

'Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise' Colm Tóibín

Battered by repeated suicide bombs, the Israeli army invaded Palestine in April 2002 and held many of the principal towns, including Ramallah, under siege. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; there were Israeli soldiers on the rooftops; his mother was sick, and he couldn't cross town to help her.

Shehadeh - winner of the 2008 Orwell Prize and a finalist for the 2023 National Book Awards - kept a diary. This is an account of what it is like to be under siege: the terror, the frustrations, as well as the moments of poignant relief and reflection on the profound crisis gripping both Palestine and Israel.

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4.5
“There is so much to say, but for now, what broke me was that this was based on 2002 and the writer said that IDF knows they can't do an ethnical cleansing so are forcing curfews on people to drive them out. This writer is alive! This writer is witnessing his words coming alive. This writer is witnessing the genocide and the ethical cleansing of Gaza going on right now since 2023!”

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