Ma' Al Sama'
Yahya Yakhlif
Ma' Al Sama' (Dar al Shorouk, Amman, Jordan, 2008), by Palestinian author Yahya Yakhlif, follows the lives of Palestinian exiles after their expulsion from their homeland. In an emotional account taking in the troubled years between the 1948 Nakba and the defeat of 1967, including the Palestinian revolt emerging from the refugee camps during the 1960s, the story examines the ordeal of the exiles, from the initial depression of exile to the pursuit to recover dignity and regain strength after a defeat that destroyed their world.
Nomination
2009 Longlist
Yahya Yakhlif
Country of origin Palestine
About the author
Yahya Yakhlif is a Palestinian novelist. He was born in Samakh in 1944 and has lived as a refugee for most of his life. He is the author of several short story collections and three novels. His novel A Lake Beyond the Wind, a fictionalised account of the last days of Samakh in the winter and spring of 1948, was published in English by Interlink Books (US) in 2003.