Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Under the Gaze of Angels
Three Stories and a Memoir
- Publisher
- Interlink Books
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2021
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781623718992
- Publish Date
- Jul 2021
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Under the Gaze of Angels offers treasured views of family and neighborhood life, native to the Galilee, in the years leading up to and following the upheavals of 1948. A collection of four stories, told with simplicity and warmth, they include three set during the time of British mandate rule: “Zuha and the Book Vendor,” “The English Gramophone,” and “Yildiz the Turkish Woman.” These are followed by the book’s title work, a remembrance that travels from childhood to elder years, pursued by loss. Imagined or recalled in exile, these vivid, evocative mementos quietly disarm the violence that surrounds them, restoring a stolen past to memory under the gaze of angels.
About the author
Said Habib is a Toronto-based writer of Palestinian descent. Under the Gaze of Angels is his first published work.