ISBN 9781566564151 | 1566564158 Textbooks - "The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimist Interlink World Fiction Series" by Trevor Le Gassick Emile Habiby Emile Habiby Trevor Le Gassick TranslatorSalma Khadra Jayyusi Trevor Le Habiby Emile Gassick

Authors: Trevor Le Gassick - Emile Habiby - Emile Habiby; Trevor Le Gassick; Translator-Salma Khadr…
ISBN 10: 1566564158
ISBN 13: 9781566564151
Release: September 28, 2001
Format: Paperback (192 pages)
List Price: $12.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary,

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This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain; but in a series of tragicomic episodes, he is gradually transformed from a disaster-haunted, gullible collaborator into a Palestinian-no hero still, but a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness. The author's own anger and sorrow at Palestine's tragedy and his acquaintance with the absurdities of Israeli politics (he was once a member of Israel's parliament himself) are here transmuted into satire both biting and funny.

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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (Interlink World Fiction Series)