The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion

By Akram Musallam أكرم مسلم

Book Overview

An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor.

On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his father's amputated leg, dreaming nightly of a haunting scorpion, witnessing the powerful aura of his mountain-lodging aunt. His work in progress is a meditation on absence, loss, and emptiness. He poses deep questions: What does it mean to exist? How can you confirm the existence of a place, a person, a limb? How do we engage with what is no longer there? Absurd at times, raw at others, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion explores Palestinian identity through Akram Musallam's extended metaphors in the hope of transcending the loss of territory and erasure of history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857428934
• ISBN13: 9780857428936
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 6.1"