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The Drone Eats with Me

Diaries from a City Under Fire

By (author) Atef Abu Saif
Foreword by Noam Chomsky
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, United Kingdom
Published: 31st Mar 2015
Dimensions: w 126mm h 199mm d 23mm
Weight: 175g
ISBN-10: 1905583710
ISBN-13: 9781905583713
Barcode No: 9781905583713
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Synopsis
On 7 July 2014, in an apparent response to the murder of three teenagers, Israel launched a major offensive against the Gaza Strip, lasting 51 days, killing 2145 Palestinians (578 of them children), injuring over 11,000, and demolishing 17,200 homes. The usual news machine rolled up, and the same distressing images and entrenched political rhetoric were broadcast, yet almost nothing was reported of the on-going lives of ordinary Gazans - the real victims of the war. One of the few voices to make it out was that of Atef Abu Saif, a writer and teacher from Jabalia Refugee Camp, whose eye-witness accounts (published in The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere) offered a rare window into the conflict for Western readers. Here, Atef's complete diaries of the war allow us to witness the full extent of last summer's atrocities from the most humble of perspectives: that of a young father, fearing for his family's safety, trying to stay sane in an insanely one-sided war.

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'Witnessed, lived, and recorded page by page. A searing account of living through the 2014 bombardment of Gaza. We who report it can never capture the true scale of individual and collective suffering. As a Gaza resident, Atef Abu Saif's diary provides an insight no outsider could ever have achieved.' - Jon Snow; 'In this luminous account of Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza, Atef Abu Saif creates a literary equivalent to Goya's Disasters of War. The Drone Eats with Me deserves to become a modern classic of war literature. But for all the surrealist absurdity of the horrors Abu Saif chronicles, the book pulses throughout with the sublime, mundane and ferocious love for life.' - Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood; 'The Drone Eats with Me is a devastating contemporary war journal. This is what war is like in the 21st century - the voice of a civilian in the onslaught of drone warfare, a voice we have never heard before.' - Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient and Divisadero.