A darkly comic Palestinian novel by Akram Musallam traces a young man reckoning with his life, as he writes a novel in a Ramallah parking lot. Musallam captures the fragmentation and dark humor of Palestinian life under occupation through an inventive narrative that blends allegory and realism with Palestinian folklore and political absurdism. An important work of contemporary Arabic fiction. Valuable for students and researchers of contemporary Arabic fiction and Palestinian literature, particularly those interested in absurdism, dark humor, and political allegory as literary strategies under occupation. Translated from its original Arabic by Sawad Hussain.
