The Stone House | 
pickA Palestinian boy sets off on a school trip in 1968, reflecting on his experience of having known life only under the Israeli occupation. His mother, waving him off, reflects on her experience of surviving the horrors of the 1948 Catastrophe, when Palestine was abandoned by the British and occupied by Israelis. She visits her mother, who recalls the withdrawal of Ottoman occupation, and the succeeding British and Israeli occupations. ⬇️
Bookwomble This fictionalised history of the author's family was published in 2021, and the cautiously optimistic epilogue is the more poignant being read post the 7/10/23 Hamas-led attack and the ongoing Israeli reprisals. 5d
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