
Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi
April 1948, Jerusalem: It is the fifth month of what will become a nineteen-month conflict. Seven hundred thousand Palestinians flee their homes. Eight-year-old Ghada Karmi wakes to a shattering crash.
April 1948, Jerusalem: It is the fifth month of what will become a nineteen-month conflict. Seven hundred thousand Palestinians flee their homes. Eight-year-old Ghada Karmi wakes to a shattering crash. Two suitcases are packed in a hurry. Loved ones (a nanny, Fatima, and the family dog, Rex) are left behind. Following a brief exile in Syria, the family settles in London. There, Karmi becomes a doctor and a staunch activist for the Palestinian right of return. She described those events in her first memoir, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (Verso, 2002). This sequel narrates her own