The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby

The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist

Emile Habiby with Trevor Le Gassick (Translator), Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Translator)

169 pages paperback 1974

16 editions

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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, re...

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