Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian novelist and
journalist. She is the author of Sariq al-Nawm (The Sleep Thief).
She lives in New York.
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, translator, and
scholar. He is associate professor at New York University's
Gallatin School. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the
Presence of Absence won the 2012 National Translation Award.
In The Book of Disappearance, Palestinian novelist Ibtisam Azem has
crafted a masterpiece which immediately leads the reader to ponder
the historical foundations of the 1948 Nakba, as well as the
Zionist intentions and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the
land where they belong.-- "Middle East Monitor"
The Book of Disappearance demonstrates Azem's dexterity,
imagination and craft and has been brought to English-language
readers in the pure, measured prose of the poet and writer Sinan
Antoon.-- "The Citizen"
Using a magical realism as cool and lacerating as that of Borges,
Azem builds the story of a young Israeli journalist and his
vanished Palestinian friend into a devastating exploration of the
nakbah, betrayal, erasure, and love of home. For lovers of
Palestinian literature, The Book of Disappearance has earned its
place beside Saher Khalifa's Wild Thorns, and thanks to Sinan
Antoon's masterful translation, Anglophone readers can now
experience this thrilling, essential work.-- "Molly Crabapple,
coauthor of Brothers of the Gun"
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