E’ tra i finalisti dell’Arab Booker di quest’anno, Rabai al Madhoun con la sua Lady from Tel Aviv. I recensori ne parlano bene.
Questa è la trama del romanzo:
Raba’i Madhoun tackles the Arab/Palestinian-Israeli issue, focusing on a pivotal time of anxiety and suspicion, with tensions on the point of boiling over. The novel’s protagonists are Palestinian exile Walid Dahman, who is returning home to Gaza after many years in Europe, and Israeli Dana Ahuva, who happens to be sitting next to him on their flight into Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport. Their dialogue takes the reader into the far realms of memory, history and the self. The Lady from Tel Aviv is a novel that, in its complexity, intricacy and ambiguity, avoids the dogma of ready-made ideology.
Raba’i al Madhoun ha passato un bel pezzo della sua vita a Khan Younis, nella Striscia di Gaza, e ha studiato nelle scuole dei rifugiati, quelle dell’Unrwa.