The author's acclaimed memoir of her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in North London
Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and trained as a doctor of medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? and the best-selling In Search of Fatima. She writes frequently for the Guardian and the Nation.
Keenly observed, fierce, honest and yet light of touch, Ms Karmi's
memoir of dislocation illlustrates just how inseparable, for many
people, the personal and the political still can be.
*Economist*
Ghada Karmi's compelling and beautifully written narrative is more
than a personal memoir. It enables the reader to understand and to
empathise with the psychological dislocation of exile that
continues to fuel the Palestinian cause ...
*Independent*
Karmi's great achievement is to humanise the Palestinian
predicament. Violent uprooting and exile have permanent
psychological effects, which, as the Jewish people discovered, are
not necessarily assuaged by the passage of time. We need
counter-narratives like this, because we have recently learnt that
it is not only parochial but also dangerous to ignore the pain and
rights of others.
*Independent*
This is an important memoir, beautifully written by an intelligent,
sensitive woman that fills a void in studies of Zionism. It should
help those of us who do not understand why growing numbers of
Muslims and not a few Christians have lost faith with Western
pretensions of fairness.
*Financial Times*
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