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Author Darraj, Susan Muaddi, author.

Title A curious land : stories from home / Susan Muaddi Darraj.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 275 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "This book is the winner of the 2014 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction"--Title page verso.
Summary "Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and, ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of home. A Curious Land gives voice to the experiences of Palestinians in the last century."-- Amazon.com.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; The Journey Home; Abu Sufayan; The Well; Rocky Soil; Intifada Love Story; The Fall; Behind the Pillars of the Orthodox Church; Village Gossip: The View from the Qahwah; Christmas in Palestine; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back Cover.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject West Bank -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
West Bank.
Manners and customs.
Villages -- Palestine -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Villages.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Electronic books.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Added Title Short stories. Selections
Other Form: Print version: Darraj, Susan Muaddi. Short stories. Selections. Curious land. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015] 9781625341877 (DLC) 2015024889 (OCoLC)910596033
ISBN 9781613764381 (electronic book)
1613764383 (electronic book)
9781625341877
1625341873