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Under the Gaze of Angels: Stories
Under the Gaze of Angels offers treasured views of family and neighborhood life, native to the Galilee, in the years leading up to and following the upheavals of 1948.
A collection of four stories, told with simplicity and warmth, they include three set during the time of British mandate “Zuha and the Book Vendor,” “The English Gramophone,” and “Yildiz the Turkish Woman.” These are followed by the book’s title work, a remembrance that travels from childhood to elder years, pursued by loss. Imagined or recalled in exile, these vivid, evocative mementos quietly disarm the violence that surrounds them, restoring a stolen past to memory under the gaze of angels.
A collection of four stories, told with simplicity and warmth, they include three set during the time of British mandate “Zuha and the Book Vendor,” “The English Gramophone,” and “Yildiz the Turkish Woman.” These are followed by the book’s title work, a remembrance that travels from childhood to elder years, pursued by loss. Imagined or recalled in exile, these vivid, evocative mementos quietly disarm the violence that surrounds them, restoring a stolen past to memory under the gaze of angels.
192 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2021
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October 24, 2021
An important literary exploration in three stories of Palestine during British rule, and a final equally important memoir piece.
Habib can certainly write, and I found the work unsettling (in a good way) and edifying, however the reader’s immersion in the work might have been enhanced by some dialogue - there is none at all, resulting in a tone that seems like an excess of summary.
I did love how deeply the author gazes into the soul of women. He does his characters justice.
Habib can certainly write, and I found the work unsettling (in a good way) and edifying, however the reader’s immersion in the work might have been enhanced by some dialogue - there is none at all, resulting in a tone that seems like an excess of summary.
I did love how deeply the author gazes into the soul of women. He does his characters justice.
July 20, 2024
"When I told her that the war had started, she said that she was busy having her own war with a huge load of laundry."
Each story, fiction or autobiography, is written with clear and simple diction without the conceits of defined narrative arcs - which, in this case, lends them immersive realism. They are living portraits, vivid on the canvases but ending abruptly at the frames, because living stories have no tidy edges. Gorgeous and heartbreaking.
Each story, fiction or autobiography, is written with clear and simple diction without the conceits of defined narrative arcs - which, in this case, lends them immersive realism. They are living portraits, vivid on the canvases but ending abruptly at the frames, because living stories have no tidy edges. Gorgeous and heartbreaking.
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