The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
of Emile Habiby, Trevor Le Gassick
Description
This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain; but in a series of tragicomic episodes, he is gradually transformed from a disaster-haunted, gullible collaborator into a Palestinian -- no hero still, but a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 169 pages
- Publisher Interlink Books
- Publication Date September 1st 2001
- First Publication 10/30/74
- Language English
- ISBN 9781566564151
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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