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In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

by Ghada Karmi - £10.99  Verso Books (2009)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781844673681 | ISBN 10: 1844673685

Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. A gentle humor describes the bizarre and sometimes tense realities that mask her life in “Little Tel Aviv” and, later, her struggle, like that of many other women in the late fifties, to get a university grant to study medicine. Ghada’s personal story is set against the continuing crisis in the Middle East.
 
In Search of Fatima reminds us that the only crime the Palestinians committed was to be born in Palestine. Its author, a committed physician, is desperate for the wounds to heal; History, however, refuses to oblige.

"Her memoir is the story of a fascinating woman... If it is a truism to say that no one endures such a catastrophe as that of 1948 with anything except great difficulty, it is certainly not always true that special individuals can make something humanly rich and interesting out of such dire stuff."
(Edward Said)

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In booklists: Palestinian Lives & Writing, Women in the Middle East, Childhood Memoirs,
In categories: Poetry & Writing, World - Middle East, Children & Young People,

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