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The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion

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Publisher's Synopsis

An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor.

On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his father's amputated leg, dreaming nightly of a haunting scorpion, witnessing the powerful aura of his mountain-lodging aunt. His work in progress is a meditation on absence, loss, and emptiness. He poses deep questions: What does it mean to exist? How can you confirm the existence of a place, a person, a limb? How do we engage with what is no longer there? Absurd at times, raw at others, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion explores Palestinian identity through Akram Musallam's extended metaphors in the hope of transcending the loss of territory and erasure of history.

Book information

ISBN: 9780857428936
Publisher: Seagull Books
Imprint: Seagull Books
Pub date:
Edition: Hardback original
DEWEY: 892.737
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 132
Weight: 346g
Height: 160mm
Width: 237mm
Spine width: 17mm