Words of My Father Bashir YousefPevná vazba
Words of My Father Bashir YousefPevná vazba In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting…
Specifikacia Words of My Father Bashir YousefPevná vazba
Words of My Father Bashir YousefPevná vazba
In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards. Yousef's father refuses to flee and risk losing the house forever, so the army keeps the family in a state of virtual imprisonment. Everything changes when the Second Intifada erupts and soldiers occupy the family home.
Over time, Yousef learns how to endure his new life in captivity - but he can't anticipate that a bullet is about to transform his future in an instant. Yousef struggles to understand how his father can be so committed to peaceful co-existence that he welcomes the occupying Israeli soldiers as 'guests', even in the face of unfair and humiliating treatment. Shot by an Israeli soldier at the age of fifteen, and taken to hospital in Tel Aviv, Yousef slowly and painstakingly confronts