marcynewman 's review for:

Touch by Adania Shibli

3.0

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This novella is quite intriguing not so much for its content, but for its prose. Each chapter and section is kind of like a very small snapshot of a particular moment in space and time. But much of it is rather vague as to the specific context in which they take place. But the writing is quite poetic and moving, especially the section called "language" in which the protagonist goes to school and begins learning Arabic. The book is a lovely little experimental novella that is not entirely describable, so it is worth discovering for yourself.