Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza

Author:   Samah Sabawi
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Australia
ISBN:  

9781761344978


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   17 September 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza


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'If there's a more important or timely book in 2024, I'm yet to come across it. Five big shiny stars.' GOOD READING MAGAZINE 'Samah Sabawi has written a story of courage and struggle. Her generosity is such that above all she has gifted us a story of love of family and country.' TONY BIRCH The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland. Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced, with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia. One of the gifts of Samah Sabawi's Baba is to remain open-hearted and optimistic.

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Author:   Samah Sabawi
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:   Penguin Random House Australia
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.418kg
ISBN:  

9781761344978


ISBN 10:   1761344978
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   17 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Samah Sabawi is an author, playwright and poet and a recipient of multiple awards both nationally and internationally. Her theatre credits include the critically acclaimed and award-winning plays Tales of a City by the Sea and THEM. In 2020 Samah received the prestigious Green Room Award for Best Writing in the independent theatre category, and was shortlisted for both the NSW and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. With Stephen Orlo Samah edited the anthology Double Exposure- Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, winner of the Patrick O'Neill Award and she co-authored I Remember My Name- Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso, edited by Vacy Vlazna, winner of the Palestine Book Award. Samah received a Doctor of Philosophy from Victoria University for her thesis titled Inheriting Exile, transgenerational trauma and the Palestinian Australian Identity.

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