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The Illusion of Return

On sale

7th February 2008

Price: £8.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781905559077

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After 17 years, the narrator and his friend, Ali, meet at Heathrow and
slowly remember their past in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon. Their memories are concentrated on one fatal night when they were with two other friends for the last time, before tragedy struck. But for the narrator, a personal tragedy had occurred much earlier¿

Like many other Palestinians, both Ali and the narrator had to leave Lebanon in the mid-1980s, when it became a battleground for local armies – Ali to America, the narrator to London.

But this is not just a story about suffering, it is also about absurd politics
and violence – about a world where tragedy and comedy co-exist.

A poignant story that lingers long after one has finished it.