In Search of Fatima
Ghada Karmi
£10.00

Paperback: 452 pages

Publisher: Verso (5 May 2009, 2nd Ed.)

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3.8 cm

ISBN: 978-1844673681

Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe, and coming of age in Golders Green, the north London Jewish suburb. A powerful biographical story, In Search of Fatima reflects the author’s personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Speaking for the millions of displaced people worldwide who have lived suspended between their old and new countries, fitting into neither, this is an intimate, nuanced exploration of the subtler privations of psychological displacement and loss of identity.