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Yet another incredible book that reads as part memoir, part historical text from Raja Shehadeh❤️‍🩹

If you haven't read more of RS's backlist, I highly encourage you to do so. I've learned so much, and have felt so moved by his stories and his narrative voice.

Free Palestine! End the occupation!

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adrienneb18's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Through a mix of memoir and history, Raja Shehadeh takes you over the hills of Palestine to document his love for the nature of the area, his peoples' deep connection and history with the land, and to show how the land is being slowly destroyed by the Israeli occupation. It's beautifully written and it's really moving to see how much he loves the hills around Ramallah. This book also serves as an example for how the destruction of Palestine has not just been at the hands of bombs, and has also been a slow moving ecological, cultural, and physical destructive force for decades.