Bibliograph

In the cemetery of the orange trees, Jeff Talarigo

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Label

In the cemetery of the orange trees, Jeff Talarigo

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

In the cemetery of the orange trees

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jeff Talarigo

Summary

Jeff Talarigo offers a rare glimpse and alternative point of view into a place few people have dared to visit: the Gaza Strip. These linked stories expose the seven-decade-long Palestinian diaspora in a disquieting allegory of the clash between the occupied and the occupier. In 1993, Talarigo watched two Palestinian boys playing with an injured bird with a string around its neck. The boys tossed the bird into the air, waiting for it to fly before the string ran out, and the bird fell into the boys' hands. For nearly a year, the author carried this image with him before he wrote a story about the bird. This story became his first published piece of fiction about his Gaza journey

Target audience

adult

Classification