The Book of Disappearance: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Format:Paperback From this lively and imaginative

From this lively and imaginative opening

an unemployed Dante scholar

and a long poem

“Jayne Joso’s novel skillfully melds the esoteric and the everyday

The Book of Disappearance: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Format:Paperback From this lively and imaginativeAlaa is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaas neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.