The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist: A Palestinian Who Became a Citizen of Israel by Emile Habiby

The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist: A Palestinian Who Became a Citizen of Israel

Emile Habiby with Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Translator), Trevor Le Gassick (Translator), Fajer Al-Kaisi (Narrator)

5 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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This contemporary classic—the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel—combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy.Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of the aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, r...

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