The Two Trick Pony
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Translated by Sam Taylor
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ABOUT THE BOOK
One morning, during a ceasefire in Gaza, a young photographer wanders far from his hotel into the narrow alleys of the city. There he comes across an old man surrounded by stacks of books. As the photographer raises his camera, the bookseller asks him first to listen to his story: ‘For isn’t there a story behind every gaze?’
Day after day the photographer returns, and Nabil tells of exile and imprisonment, resistance and political disillusionment, the joy of watching his children grow up and the tragedies that tore loved ones from him – and of the books that helped him understand, and sometimes survive, it all, from the Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Mourid Barghouti to Gabriel García Márquez, Frantz Fanon and Ernest Hemingway.
The Man Who Read Books is a short, luminous story about the power of words against barbarism, and literature as sustenance in the darkest hours.
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