Hayati, My Life

by Miriam Cooke

Miriam Cooke's melic prose animates the existence of each of the women portrayed in her new novel. With Samya, we live in Palestine of the 1920s and are imprisoned during the imposition of the British Mandate; with Assia we experience the massacre of Deir Assin, the death of a son, and the establishment of the State of Israel; with Maryam we survive war and diaspora--the Suez War, the Intifada, the Iran-Iraq War, and the scattering of a family...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815606710
• ISBN13: 9780815606710
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Great for NewComers to the Topic

I think that this is a great book for people and especially students that are not very familiar with the Israeli -Palestine conflict. I think that this is a great representation of the view of women, women's experience and so forth. This is a bit confuding chronologically, but that is the sybolic part,....Its a quick read