The Drone Eats with Me
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Atef Abu Saif
An ordinary Gazan’s “devastating contemporary war journal” that chronicles his fear, sadness, and boredom during Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient) The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted 51 days, killed 2,145 Palestinians (578 of them children), injured over 11,000 people, and demolished more than 17,000 homes. Atef Abu Saif, a young father and novelist, puts an indelibly human face on these statistics, providing a rare window into the texture of a community and the realities of a conflict that is too often obscured by politics.
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Author
Atef Abu Saif
Pages
264
Publisher
Beacon Press
Published Date
2016-07-05
ISBN
0807049115 9780807049112
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"This is a firsthand account of civilian experiences during the invasion of Gaza in 2014. I've seen a few reviews complaining that the book doesn't touch much on the political aspects of what was going on, but that's not really what this book is about. It's about the capricious nature of war from a civilian point of view: people leaving their homes in a high-risk zone only to be killed in their "refuge" while their home stood untouched, trying to keep your fridge stocked during rolling blackouts, everyone in a cafe speculating over whether a truce will hold, kids trying to emotionally blackmail their mom into letting them go to an internet cafe with a generator, the games the author plays in his head while trying to get home on what would convince drone operators that he isn't a threat."
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