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A review by perfectplaces
Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini
3.75
“We would sometimes wonder to each other: if our grandparents had never been run out of their homes like cockroaches, would we have been neighbours? Would our personalities have been different without this weight inside our souls? What would it have felt like, to have a home and to belong to that home unquestionably?”
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this was such an insightful and interesting collection of ideas - while some were better than others, as it always goes when reading short story collections, all of them at least felt conceptually strong.
if you’re going to read this, keep an eye out for ‘The Key’, ‘Digital Nation’, ‘The Association’, ‘Vengeance’, and my personal favourite, ‘Song of the Birds’ (quoted above). but all the stories had something of importance to say and i felt enriched in some way by reading them.
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this was such an insightful and interesting collection of ideas - while some were better than others, as it always goes when reading short story collections, all of them at least felt conceptually strong.
if you’re going to read this, keep an eye out for ‘The Key’, ‘Digital Nation’, ‘The Association’, ‘Vengeance’, and my personal favourite, ‘Song of the Birds’ (quoted above). but all the stories had something of importance to say and i felt enriched in some way by reading them.