Memoir by Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti recounting his return to Ramallah after thirty years of exile following the 1967 war. Barghouti reflects on displacement, memory, and identity as he traverses a homeland transformed by occupation, confronting the gap between the Palestine of his memory and the West Bank of the present. One of the most lyrical and widely praised works of Palestinian memoir. A widely read and critically acclaimed memoir recommended for general readers, students, and researchers as an accessible literary account of exile, return, displacement, and Palestinian identity under occupation. Translated from its original Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif.
