The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary

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The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary - Paperback

The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary - Paperback

by Atef Abu Saif
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An ordinary Gazan's "devastating contemporary war journal" that chronicles his fear, sadness, and boredom during Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient)

The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted 51 days, killed 2,145 Palestinians (578 of them children), injured over 11,000 people, and demolished more than 17,000 homes.

Atef Abu Saif, a young father and novelist, puts an indelibly human face on these statistics, providing a rare window into the texture of a community and the realities of a conflict that is too often obscured by politics.
ISBN9780807049105
Author Atef Abu Saif
PublisherBeacon Press
GenreBiography, News & politics, and Religion & spirituality
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages264
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Atef Abu Saif

Atef Abu Saif is a Palestinian novelist and diarist of the Palestinian experience of war and occupation. Born in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza 1973, he relocated to the West Bank in 2019 and is currently the Minister for Culture in the Palestinian Authority. Excerpts from his diaries of the 2023-24 Israel-Hamas war have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Nation, Slate, The Guardian, and elsewhere. In 2015 Atef was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arab Fiction, also known as the "Arabic Man Booker". In 2018 he also won the Katari Prize for Best Arabic Novel (young writers category). In 2015 he published his diaries of the 2014 war on Gaza: The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary (Comma Press), which was described by Molly Crabapple as "a modern classic of war literature."

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