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Indlæser... Touchaf Adania Shibli
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  AAAO | Apr 15, 2021 |   Touch is a slight novella at only 72 pages and told from the viewpoint of a small girl , the youngest of nine girls in a Palestinian family. She details the minutia of daily life where the book is divided into five sections, Colors, Silence, Movement, Language and The Wall. We are given hints of the historical events that loom larger beyond her everyday existence in that we only know as much as she does. Lyrical and beautiful prose which gently ponders the connections between a young child and her family. (  )2  jeniwren | Feb 23, 2011 |  )4 DetailMuse | Nov 30, 2010 | Translated by Paula Haydar A series of short sketches with only indirect links about a rather sad young girl in the Palestinian West Bank. This was curious the first time through, poetic, difficult the grasp or find meaning from, very quick, and then suddenly I found myself reading about the Palestinian response to Sabra and Shatila*. I read it through again, and third time, and skimmed back through several times and things begin to make sense, the links became stronger, the picture got clearer and the language Shibli uses began to have more meaning and reveal itself as not simply poetic, but layered, complex, and it does that thing some authors can do where it, the language, can communicate something very dark and yet be, itself, quite beautiful. I read this for belletrista in order to take part in one of the conversations belletrista published. A first for me, both this kind of conversation and the being published. That was fun. You can find the conversation here: http://www.belletrista.com/2010/issue8/features_4.php *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre 2010 http://www.librarything.com/topic/90167#2381900 ( )1 dchaikin | Nov 7, 2010 | Touch is a novella about a young Palestinian girl, which consists of five themed sections of prose poetry: colors, silence, movement, language, and the wall. Although tragedy, sadness and isolation are present throughout the narrative, there are only a couple of fleeting references to the Palestinian struggle, which seemingly have little if any impact on the life of the girl. The writing is beautiful and evocative, and this slim book is best read slowly, attentively and repeatedly for fuller enjoyment and appreciation. This is a typical excerpt from one of the sections: The mother sat on a rocking chair that rocked back and forth until its movement faded away and she would start it again. The little girl was standing in front of her on the edge of the veranda, holding onto its iron frame, while her eyes were fixed to the sky, holding onto the edge of a cloud. Thus her journey would start through the space over the veranda, with the mother behind her, until the cloud disappeared beyond the horizon. The girl would turn her head, then look straight up again and wait for the next cloud. She suddenly got dizzy, so she sat on the edge of the veranda and pushed her head between the railings, but they did not allow it to pass through. Her head stopped just before the ears, and so did the spinning inside it. But everywhere else in the world, in the fields stretched out before her, the spinning continued. Millions of blades of grass were moving in the same direction as the clouds. The softness of the hair of that green sea was similar to the softness of the sun's rays the moment they spilled through the clouds. Highly recommended. (  )5 kidzdoc | Aug 15, 2010 |
 The protagonist of Adania Shibli’s Touch is a little girl, the youngest of nine sisters, who discovers love, death, literature, violence, betrayal, infidelity, alienation, loneliness and decay as she trips through the disjointed plot of a novella that runs just under 75 pages. Shibli never names her, never describes her and fills in few details of her time and place. She defies basically every convention of novelistic form. There is no setting, no character development, no detectable sequence of events set in motion. Divided into five chapters, the book barely tells a story at all. Instead, Touch purrs along like an extended prose poem – all words and sounds and images – as Shibli picks up the glinting fragments of the girl’s experience, then turns them over in her hand to see how they refract the light of a world so radically constricted and reduced. HæderspriserNotable Lists
Touch centers on a girl, the youngest of nine sisters in a Palestinian family. In the singular world of this novella, this young woman's everyday experiences resonate until they have become as weighty as any national tragedy. The smallest sensations compel, the events of history only lurk at the edges--the question of Palestine, the massacre at Sabra and Shatila. In a language that feels at once natural and alienated, Shibli breaks with the traditions of modern Arabic fiction, creating a work that has been and will continue to be hailed across literatures. Here every ordinary word, ordinary action is a small stone dropped into water: of inevitable consequence. We find ourselves mesmerized one quiet ripple at a time. No library descriptions found. |
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من السهل الممتنع.
رواية بسيطة، لكنها عميقة، تُروى من منظور-إن لم يكن سرد- طفلة. وتلتزم بهذا الأسلوب حتى في المشاهد الصعبة. نموذج جيد لتجسيد المشاهد بشكل نظري ومحسوس. متقن التنفيذ.
حائزة على جائزة مؤسسة عبد المحسن القطان لعام 2001 ومرشحة لجائزة بوكر العالمية عن روايتها الجديدة ((تفصيل هامشي)) بنسختها المترجمة للإنجليزية لعام 2021
Simple but profound, told from the perspective, if not recount or personification (first person) of a child, and remains faithful to that perspective even in the difficult scenes. Very visual and well executed.
Winner of the Abdel Mohsin Al-Qattan Foundation 2001 Prize for fiction. The author is up for the international booker this year (2021) for her most recent work.