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I will not leave

I will not leave

  • Authors: By (author) undefined
  • Publishers: ALIFBATA
  • Date of Publication: 2023-08-25
  • Availability: Available
  • Return Conditions: 2024-08-25
  • Pages: 128
  • The story begins in prison. A bird lands on a cell window and offers the prisoner the following pact: “You provide the pencils and I provide the pencils.” provided the stories." Every day, armed with sheets of paper stolen from the investigator and With his pencil, the prisoner draws these stories: that of this young couple who cannot get through the checkpoints to reach the maternity ward on time from Jerusalem, that of a father and a daughter separated by prison and who only know in photos, or that of a mother waiting for her son went out in the morning to go to school and never came back... Over the years pages, the stories reported by the bird illustrate how much prison is more vast as a simple building, how much it goes beyond a cell, extending to the towns and villages... But it is also the resistance of the Palestinians, their hope, their trust and their refusal to leave that the author traces in these black and white plates made using linocut.
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