{"product_id":"children-of-the-dew-9781917126236","title":"Children of the Dew","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, English PEN Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the late Palestinian poet Mohammad Al-As'ad comes a chronicle of the vanished village from which he was expelled, its geography, and its people.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren of the Dew\u003c\/i\u003e is the late poet Mohammad Al-As'ad's first venture into literature beyond poetry. Genre bending poetic prose, the work centres on the expulsion of the author and his family from Umm al-Zinat, a Palestinian Mt. Carmel village in the Haifa district, upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving between the author's childhood memories, the villager's stories, and the later exile to eastern Palestine and eventually southern Iraq, \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Dew\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting poetic representation in magic realist style of the Nakba, the event which continues to structure the Palestinian quest for freedom and liberation in historic Palestine and in exile today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Mahmoud Darwish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tilted Axis Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917126236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120","brand":"Mohammad Al-As'ad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52933653037237,"sku":"9781917126236","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/children-of-the-dew-9781917126236","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}