Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine

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“With humility, respect, and great sensitivity, he seeks out writers, people skilled at telling stories, and asks them to narrate their own situations. The result is a document that captures not only the manifold sorrows and injustices of Palestinian life but something of its beauty, its joys, and its yearning.” —Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring

Taking the long route through the West Bank, into Jerusalem, across Israel, and finally into Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio meets with Palestinian poets, authors, librarians, and booksellers to learn about Palestine through their eyes.
Pay No Heed to the Rockets offers a look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary culture, one that begins with art rather than with war.

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Praise for Pay No Heed to the Rockets


In Pay No Heed to the Rockets, Marcello Di Cintio does something fundamental, and crucial, that foreign writers visiting Palestine rarely bother with: he listens. With humility, respect, and great sensitivity, he seeks out writers, people skilled at telling stories, and asks them to narrate their own situations. The result is a document that captures not only the manifold sorrows and injustices of Palestinian life but something of its beauty, its joys, and its yearning.” —Ben Ehrenreich, author of
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

“Marcello Di Cintio is an active participant who reacts emotionally to the Palestinians he interviews . . . Rather than focusing on the ugliness of deprivation, he seeks out the experiences of Palestinian writers and artists for whom, he says, nothing is more beautiful than a story . . . Through its rich descriptions,
Pay No Heed to the Rockets depicts Palestine as a place filled with life and hope . . . Di Cintio explores the lived experiences, of a people whose homes, but not their identities, have been displaced.” —Sam Risak,
Los Angeles Review of Books

“Traveling through the West Bank, into Jerusalem, across Israel, and into Gaza, Di Cintio reveals life in contemporary Palestinian territories through the lens of its authors, books, and literature . . . Throughout he finds ‘no life undarkened . . . by conflict’ but also ‘no life wholly defined’ by it either.” —Amy Alipio and Starlight Williams,
National Geographic

“One of the great tragedies of Palestine is how little most outsiders know of everyday Palestinians. Journalist Di Cintio narrows this gap by recounting his nearly 20 years of visits to the West Bank and Gaza, weaving conversations around the writings of Palestine’s many literary figures . . . Literature, history, and politics inevitably intertwine . . . A timely and exquisite book.” —
Booklist (starred review)

“Di Cintio (
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades) offers a powerful and perceptive reflection on Palestinian culture in a memoir that mixes travelogue and literary appreciation . . . Di Cintio’s prose is wonderfully descriptive, whether portraying libraries and bookstores dedicated to preserving and promoting a cultural history threatened with elimination or recounting stories of novels being written in prison on cigarette wrappers. This is a refreshing and hopeful reminder that on both sides of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are countless people who wish to live their lives free of the hatred borne of geopolitical conflict.” —
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Leaving aside the usual political covens and an inclination to despair, Di Cintio’s lucid account of present–day Palestine is the inspired portrait of a nation in dialog with its ghosts past and future affirming its right to be. This is a necessary book for our bewildered times.” —Alberto Manguel, author of
A History of Reading, and
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

“Di Cintio’s tour is a good introduction to current Palestinian literary life. He tries to take no side in the conflict . . . What he’s advocating for is sympathy for human beings.” —Mike Wold,
Real Change

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Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine

1,459.00

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