the secret life of saeed the pessoptimist summary

He managed to ride into Israel on an ass and called for Mr. Saeed and his family escaped to Lebanon but Saeed eventually decides to flee to Israel and he is able to do this, as his sister’s (married) boyfriend volunteers to help do so, not least as he probably wants to get rid of him.

As he died, his father told Saeed that he should go to Mr. He would have been killed but for a donkey who walked into the line on fire and died instead of Saeed. His family was shot at by the Israelis and his father killed. While it was a bad year for the other Palestinians, it was the year in which Saeed’s life was saved by a donkey. It was the year of the Nakba, the year when large numbers of Palestinians were either driven out of Palestine or forced to flee, under threats from the Israeli forces, and when Israel gained recognition by the United Nations. (Many of the names in this book have meanings, which may or may not be relevant.) At the start of the book, he tells us that he has been rescued by creatures from Outer Space and he is now writing a letter about his life to an unnamed narrator, who seems to be a journalist, telling us how and why he got into a situation whereby he needed rescuing.ġ948 was a key year for the Palestinians. Saeed, in Arabic, means something like happy or fortunate. On the whole, Arab writers do not do satire so this book, which is funny and satirical, is a treat.

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