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Paperback. Condition: New. In Stranger, Nyla Matuk's provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media's flattened, outward identity markers. In place of this contested sense of self, Stranger reckons with a range of possible states of unknowing. Have we over-determined our identities, and thus diminished our appetites? "I fell asleep between two cold rivers," Matuk reports, "while the blue shadows of uncomplicated / conifers leaned into their own." Bold and spontaneous, piling images and ideas on top of each other to create opulent sound patterns, these poems reawaken the reader's sense of wonder.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Taking as her inspiration the feudal rules that once enforced social rank by legislating what a person was permitted to wear and eat, Matuk discovers a new metaphor for contemporary desire in her first full-length collection. Through wildly imaginative and linguistically daring poems she explores 21st-century "sumptuary laws" that dictate societal divisions of luxury and necessity, splendor and squalor, and in the process creates an anthology of irresistible originality.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. In Stranger, Nyla Matuk's provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media's flattened, outward identity markers. In place of this contested sense of self, Stranger reckons with a range of possible states of unknowing. Have we over-determined our identities, and thus diminished our appetites? "I fell asleep between two cold rivers," Matuk reports, "while the blue shadows of uncomplicated / conifers leaned into their own." Bold and spontaneous, piling images and ideas on top of each other to create opulent sound patterns, these poems reawaken the reader's sense of wonder.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Two Palestinians search for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession.Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled-a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeric trance of desire, curiosity, and confrontation. Their brief, charged affair unfolds in a landscape shaped by rupture and resistance, each of them bearing different inheritances of the same loss. Leila and Khaled is a love story and a reckoning-a lyrical, unflinching meditation on belonging, memory, and the enduring wounds of colonialism. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Two Palestinians search for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession.Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled-a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeric trance of desire, curiosity, and confrontation. Their brief, charged affair unfolds in a landscape shaped by rupture and resistance, each of them bearing different inheritances of the same loss. Leila and Khaled is a love story and a reckoning-a lyrical, unflinching meditation on belonging, memory, and the enduring wounds of colonialism. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A decolonial vacation romance between two Palestinians one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land searching for home in each other.Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilising return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeric trance of desire, curiosity, and confrontation. Their brief charged affair unfolds in a landscape shaped by rupture and resistance, each of them bearing different inheritances of the same loss.One night in Khaleds hotel room, Leila listens as he recounts a harrowing confrontation with a former paramilitary who participated in the Nakba of 1948. The conversation cracks open buried grief and fury, bringing history violently into the present.Leila and Khaled is a love story and a reckoning a lyrical, unflinching meditation on belonging, memory, and the enduring wounds of colonialism.'Leila and Khaled, unapologetic and unforgettable, are elegantly crafted through this novels every moment of revelation, nuance, and moving lyricism. A stirring debut.' Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir 'An unflinching exploration of Palestinian resistance and a love story teeming with passion and pathos. Bold, ambitious, startling in its moral clarity and utterly engrossing.' Jasmine Sealy, author of The Island of Forgetting'Leila and Khaled is a highly realistic novel, a love affair superimposed on some of the most contested territory in the world.' California Review of Books'A torrid, deeply felt romanceBrimming with erudition and luxuriously researched history.' Saeed Teebi, author of Her First Palestinian 'Skilfully and sympathetically told, Leila and Khaled is a powerful story of love, fate, resistance, privilege, and bearing witness.' Christine Estima, author of Letters to Kafka'Leila and Khaled is an evocative, moving, and crucial novel that affirms the power of storytelling as an essential act of resistance.' Kathryn Mockler, author of Anecdotes'With sumptuous prose and heartrending moral clarity, Leila and Khaled triumphs.' Kathy Friedman, author of All the Shining People'Written with a poets fierce attention to language, cinematic presence, and searing moral precision.' Anna Swanson, author of The Garbage Poems A decolonial vacation romance between two Palestinians one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land searching for home in each other. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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