‘Arabic Booker’ goes to Destinies,a novel that ‘invents a unusual fictional form’ to depict Palestinian experienceA novel exploring Palestinian life in exile and occupation that has been praised for inventing a “unusual fictional form” has won the $50000 (£34000) International prize for Arabic fiction.
Rabai al-Madhoun’s Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba is written in four parts, each representing a concerto movement. The narrative spans the Holocaust, or the Palestinian exodus from Israel in 1948,and the Palestinian right to return. Speaking for the prize’s judging panel, Emirati poet and academic Amina Thiban said it “invents a unusual fictional form in order to address the Palestinian issue, and with questions of identity underpinned by a very human perspective on the struggle”.
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Source: theguardian.com