Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine

by Aziz Shihab

Book Overview

Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey. Part memoir, part travelogue, it reveals the complexities of leaving behind such the past and coming to grips with its abandonment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560968X
• ISBN13: 9780815609681
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.0"