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    Native: Dispatches from a Palestinian-Israeli Life

    By Sayed Kashua

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    Sayed Kashua has been lauded by the New York Times as “a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society.” A Palestinian-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both sides could relate to. He devoted his novels and his satirical column in Haaretz to exploring the contradictions of modern Israel while also capturing the nuances of everyday family life in all its tenderness and chaos.

    Over the last decade, his humorous essays have been among the most widely read in Israel. He writes about fatherhood and marriage, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and encounters with prejudice, as well as his love of literature. With an intimate tone fueled by deep-seated apprehension and razor-sharp wit, he has documented his own life as well as that of society at large – from instructing his daughter on when it's appropriate to speak Arabic (everywhere, anytime, except at the entrance to a mall) to opening a Facebook account during the Arab Spring (so that he wouldn't miss the next revolution).

    From the events of his everyday life, Kashua brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and fearless reflections on social and cultural dynami as experienced by someone who straddles two societies. Amusing and sincere, Native – a selection of his popular columns – is comprised of unrestrained, profoundly thoughtful personal dispatches.

    “At once hilarious and tragic, rueful and sweet, absurd and insightful” AYELET WALDMAN

    “[Native] will leave you in awe of the incredible force of humanity, humor, and some damn good writing.” ETGAR KERET

    “A wickedly ironic but humane collection.” KIRKUS REVIEWS
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaqi Books
    Release dateJun 2, 2016
    ISBN9780863561863
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    Native: Dispatches from a Palestinian-Israeli Life
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    Sayed Kashua

    Sayed Kashua was born in 1975 in Galilee and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He writes a weekly column for Ha'aretz, Israel's most prestigiousnewspaper, and lives with his wife and two children in Beit-Safafa, an Arab village within Jerusalem. His first novel, Dancing Arabs, was a San Francisco Book of the Year and was translated into eight languages. Let it be Morning (Atlantic, 2007) has been longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award

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      Kashua, an Arab-Israeli living in Jerusalem, originally wrote this book as a series of columns in the (Hebrew) Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and the theme of an Arab working and spending much of his time in a largely Jewish-Israeli milieu runs through the work. Kashua writes himself as a befuddled, sardonic figure, balancing the comic and the tragic, the personal and political, sometimes in the space of only a few pages. Largely without making explicit political pronouncements, he shows the difficulties, even humiliations, of his position through daily events: What does it mean for his daughter to play in a festival for Yom Haatzmaut? How is he treated at Ben-Gurion Airport? What do we do with the mezuzah on the doorpost of our new apartment? narrated with a razor-sharp humor.

      In the end, Kashua can take it no more: the cries of "Death to Arabs!" are too much, and he takes his family to the US. I can't help but think that's a loss for us all.