3 books to renew the dialogue, despite everything

Novel

A captivating, realistic immersion into the daily life of a notable family in Gaza, the Mujaheds. In the 2000s, the territory was often sealed off: trade and travel could not take place, and crops rotted on the spot. And the missiles are raining. Rashid, who works for the Human Rights Documentation Center, is delighted: he received a scholarship to study in London. Sabri, the eldest, who lost his wife, his little daughter and his legs in a car bomb attack, also spends his time documenting history. Iman, their sister, upset by the death of one of her students in a hospital, lets herself be approached by an energetic, Islamist woman. Thus Selma Dabbagh, a former human rights lawyer born in Scotland to a Palestinian father and an English mother, describes without pathos and unvarnished daily life in Gaza, the fight to the death between the Palestinian Authority and the Islamists, like the life of the Palestinian diaspora, whether they live in England or the Gulf. A punchy novel that lacks neither analysis nor humor.