The Book of Disappearance: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Format:Paperback ‘full-ripe’ poems that breath-takingly reveal

‘full-ripe’ poems that breath-takingly reveal experience rarely discussed

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Formerly Chairman of the Welsh Academy of Writers

Anything less spells certain death

The Book of Disappearance: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Format:Paperback ‘full-ripe’ poems that breath-takingly revealAlaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaas neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.