Golda Slept Here
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAF858 |
| Author: | Suad Amiry |
| Publisher: | Kali for Women |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2014 |
| ISBN: | 9788188965816 |
| Pages: | 182 (6 B/W Illustrations) |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 250 gm |
Book Description
About the Book
Politics enters the lives of every family in Palestine. In this literary- historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of some Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the emigre Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East.
Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments and personal tragedies; evokes
the sights and smells of Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between official histories and private memories. Through poetry and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between remembering and forgetting.
About the Author
SUAD AMIRY is an architect, and Founder-Director of RIWAQ: the Centre for Architectural Conservation in Ramallah. Amiry won Italy's prestigious Viareggio- Versilia Prize in 2004, and her first book, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law was long-listed for the Lettre Ulysses award for Reportage. She is the author of Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge (2010) and Nothing to Lose but Your Lift (2011).
Contents
| | Part One : Suad: Remembering and Forgetting | |
| 1 | They Missed Mama's Cooking | 3 |
| | Part Two : Andoni: A Master Builder's Passion | |
| 2 | The Smile | 23 |
| 3 | Museum oITolerance and Co-existence | 46 |
| | Part Three : Huda | |
| 4 | Golda Slept Here | 63 |
| 5 | Whose House is This? | 80 |
| 6 | Mother and Child | 91 |
| 7 | Husband and Wife (1958) | 94 |
| 8 | Jealousy was only to be Expected Zjune 1967 | 96 |
| 9 | Photo Albums / June 7, 1967 | 101 |
| 10 | The Visit Three Weeks after the 1967 War | 109 |
| 11 | A Dream House | 117 |
| 12 | The Prisorr/july 2011 | 122 |
| 13 | The Iraqi Officer | 134 |
| | Part Four : Elie: A Bird's-eye View | |
| 14 | A Businessman from Tel Aviv | 141 |
| | Part Five : Homage to My Mother-in-law | |
| | 1911-2005 | |
| 15 | That Very Moment | 151 |
| | Never-ending Chapter | 168 |
