Título: I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
Autor: Mourid Barghouti
Sinopse: In 1996, award-winning Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti returned to his home for the first time since his exile-first in Egypt, then in Hungary-following the Six-Day War in 1967, and wrote I Saw Ramallah, a poignant and acclaimed memoir of the exile's lot. A few years later, he returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Soon after returning to Egypt, Tamim was arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq War, and ironically was held not only in the same Cairo prison his father had occupied before being expelled from Egypt when Tamim was a baby, but in the very same cell. Tamim then felt the same sting of exile as he was banished from Egypt. Explaining to his son, and to the world, the life decisions he has made, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here illuminates the path of exile across generations. Ranging freely back and forth in time between the 1990s and the present, Barghouti poignantly recalls Palestinian history and daily life while expressing the meaning of home and the importance of being able to say, standing in a small village in Palestine, "I was born here," rather than saying from exile, "I was born there." His elegant and expressive prose, beautifully rendered in Humphrey Davies' sensitive translation, is full of life and humor in the face of a culture of death. I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is destined, like its predecessor, to become a classic.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “I Was Born There, I Was Born Here”, de Mourid Barghouti, publicado pela editora Walker Books, em 2012 e com 240 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Walker Books
Páginas: 240
Ano: 2012
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0802779972
ISBN13: 9780802779977
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora WALKER BOOKS costumam apresentar narrativas que mesclam fantasia e realidade com uma forte carga emocional e imaginação vívida. Muitas histórias exploram mundos distópicos ou sobrenaturais, onde personagens jovens enfrentam conflitos intensos, como guerras, segredos familiares e poderes especiais. O ritmo varia entre aventuras aceleradas e momentos de reflexão profunda, sempre com uma linguagem acessível para leitores jovens e adolescentes. Além disso, o catálogo inclui obras que abordam temas como amizade, perda e coragem, em contextos que vão do cotidiano familiar a universos futuristas ou mágicos.
