{"product_id":"9780241705384-tale-of-a-wall","title":"The Tale of a Wall","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReflections on Hope and Freedom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and did\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem. As a child, he played in its shadow and explored the little world within the camp. As he grew older, he began questioning the boundaries that limited his existence. Later, sentenced to life in prison, with no hope of parole, he found himself surrounded by a physical wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of how, over thirty years in captivity, he crafted a new definition of freedom. Turning to writings by philosophers as varied as Derrida, Kirkegaard and Freud, he begins to let go of freedom as a question that demanded an answer, in order to preserve it as a dream. The wall becomes his stable point of reference, his anchor, both physically and psychologically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs each year brings with it new waves of releases of prisoners, he dares to hope, and seeks refuge in the wall when these hopes are dashed. And, in a small miracle, he finds love with a lawyer from the outside – while in her absence, the wall is his solace and his curse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA testimony of how the most difficult of circumstances can build a person up instead of tearing them down, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of a Wall \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary record of the vast confinement and power of the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41540079157345,"sku":"9780241705384","price":15.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32316814.jpg?v=1737186143","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241705384-tale-of-a-wall","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}