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A young woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated by a brutal act committed during the War of 1948 that led to the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians. A dissonant meditation on violence and memory. Translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette.

Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul Starkey, 2012). She was awarded the Young Writer's Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004.