The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist

by Emile Habiby

This award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.

Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain; but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623717027
• ISBN13: 9781623717025
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"