The parts are roughly the same in length (about fifty pages each of a one-hundred-and-five-page novella) and approximately equal in narrative duration: Both focus on a few days in the lives of their respective central characters. The book, separated into two parts, is a tale of two overlapping locales. To take such liberties would itself be an act of erasure, of alteration, one more such act against Shibli’s homeland, Palestine. The translation’s spare and unornamented style takes no liberties with the original text.

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