Novel about Palestinian exile shortlisted for Arab fiction award
I thought: gads! that couldn't be.
The "Pal. exile" is fiction?
As the source was Reuters, I checked.
Here, but without the witty headline:
Women escaping their pasts and the Arab-Israeli conflict are among the themes tackled by six books shortlisted on Tuesday for the annual International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
The award, worth $10,000 to each of the nominees and another $50,000 to the winner, honors works of prose fiction in Arabic, and the exposure it brings can mean publishing deals in English and other languages.
In "The Lady from Tel Aviv," Palestinian author Raba'i Madhoun looks at the Middle East conflict through the prism of a Palestinian exile returning home to Gaza after many years abroad and an Israeli sitting next to him on a flight to Tel Aviv.
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