The Cat Who Taught Me How to Fly: An Arab Prison Novel

by Haashim Gharaayibah and Hashem Gharaibeh

In his masterpiece The Cat Who Taught Me How to Fly, Hashem Gharaibeh tells the moving story of a political prisoner during Jordan's martial law era, which spanned from 1967 to 1989. Gharaibeh defies the taboos of politics, sex, and religion to tell a thrilling and brutally honest story about the horrors and insanities of everyday life in an Arab prison. At once both a novel and an autobiography, the author draws from his own experiences as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611862280
• ISBN13: 9781611862287
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"