In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood

in the land of my birth: a palestinian boyhood, the critically-acclaimed autobiographical narrative by reja-e busailah, is the winner of the 2018 palestine book awards. lila abu-lughod has called the book, “densely layered, vivid, and angry” and the “chronicle of a boy’s unfolding understanding of a troubled world that could easily stand on a shelf beside jean-paul sartre’s the words or wole soyinka’s aké.” naomi shihad nye has said that busailah’s work is a “masterpiece of detail, sensory significance, a brilliant child’s experience of the world of palestine,” and elias khoury praised the book as “the most eloquent account of lydda’s tragedy that exists.” in the land of my birth recounts the coming of age of a blind palestinian boy of modest...