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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist Paperback - 2001

by Emile Habiby


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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. The author's own anger and sorrow at Palestine's tragedy and his acquaintance with the absurdities of Israeli politics (he was once a member of Israel's parliament himself) are here transmuted into satire both biting and funny. Translated by Anton Shammas into Hebrew, The Secret Life of Saeed won Israel's foremost Prize for Literature; a stage version played to great acclaim for a decade.

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  • Title The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
  • Author Emile Habiby
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Interlink Books, Northampton, MA
  • Date 2001-01-01
  • ISBN 9781566564151 / 1566564158
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.28 x 0.52 in (20.42 x 13.41 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Arab World
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Jewish-Arab relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001039601
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 01/01/2002, Page 806
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2002, Page 73
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