Publication date:
24 February 2002Length of book:
272 pagesPublisher
BridgeworksISBN-13: 9781882593514
Abou Ben Adhem, a Palestinian, copes by day with village political intrigue, Arab-Israeli violence and his own family turmoil, interspersed with nightly conversations with an angel named Cohen about the roots of mankind's behavior through the ages, in this poignant and ironic novel set in Gaza in 2001.
A curious fantasy [that] mingles metaphysics and grim reality.