My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

by Adina Hoffman

Book Overview

This first biography of a Palestinian writer also provides a moving account of the ways "ordinary" individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war and peace

Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300164270
• ISBN13: 9780300164275
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"