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Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini
2 reviews
tahsintries's review against another edition
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, Abortion, Addiction, Genocide, Medical trauma, Blood, Confinement, Murder, Mental illness, and Colonisation
dhiyanah's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
3.0
A collection of sci-fi short stories that grapple with the question, what would Palestine look like 100 years after the 1948 Nakba? The stories were outwardly dark and some very intriguing, each illustrating challenges that directly ricocheted back to the present while clinging to a past that's desperately trying not to be erased.
Whatever strange concoction or tricky challenges the authors came up with for their characters to endure here felt faint in comparison to the real-life bombardment that Palestinians have endured for nearly 100 years, now. I think that may be the very point of this dystopian collection.
What struck me was an underlying tone of hope that seemed embedded in many of these stories - that even if the imagined or near future were to be full of the same dread, the fight to reclaim one's right to live will also keep going on.
Whatever strange concoction or tricky challenges the authors came up with for their characters to endure here felt faint in comparison to the real-life bombardment that Palestinians have endured for nearly 100 years, now. I think that may be the very point of this dystopian collection.
What struck me was an underlying tone of hope that seemed embedded in many of these stories - that even if the imagined or near future were to be full of the same dread, the fight to reclaim one's right to live will also keep going on.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Misogyny, Gun violence, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Abortion, Sexual assault, Child death, Sexual content, and Racial slurs
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