The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam AzemLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, this critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel. What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? The Book of Disappearance is set in contemporary Tel Aviv. Alaa is a young Palestinian man who is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. His Jewish

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takes him back through his turbulent family history- from his Chinese great-grandfather's life on the goldfields in 1860s Queensland

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have created a monumental family history of the Wilomin Noongar people

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