Description
In his novel, Sinan Antoon addresses the issue of migration from the perspective of an identity struggle—the conflict between clinging to one’s heritage and erasing it to forge a new one—and the multifaceted struggle of grievances.
“From the novel’s atmosphere:
What kind of homeland is it when you own nothing in it? Even your body, while still in your mother’s womb, is not yours to own. The government owns your body and, in its boundless generosity, allows you to live in it. It does with your body as it pleases. It throws it, along with hundreds of thousands of others, into losing wars, depriving it of food and starving it so that it and its children may fatten. And if you disobey its permissible custom, one of its dogs will bite you. The government will leave its mark on your forehead if you dare to defy its unjust, arbitrary, and oppressive laws—that is, if you are lucky enough not to be dumped in the desert and left without a trace.”
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