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A Palestinian Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2007
On Sale: March 29, 2007
Featuring: Rina Castelnuovo
560 pages
ISBN: 0374299501
EAN: 9780374299507
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A prominent Palestinian's searching, anguished, deeply
affecting autobiography, in which his life story comes to be
the story of the recent history of his country.
Sari Nusseibeh’s autobiography is a remarkable book—one
in which his dramatic life story and that of his embattled
country converge in a work of great passion, depth, and
emotional power. Nusseibeh was raised to represent his country. His
family’s roots in Palestine traced back to the Middle Ages,
and his father was the governor of Jerusalem. Educated at
Oxford, he was trained to build upon his father’s support
for coexistence and a negotiated solution to the problems of
the region.
But the wars of 1967 and 1973 spelled the
beginning of the end for the vision of a unified
Palestine—and Nusseibeh’s response to these events, and to
those that followed, gives us the recent history from a
Palestinian point of view as no book has done. From his time
teaching side by side with Israelis at Hebrew University
through his appointment by Yassir Arafat to administer Arab
Jerusalem, he holds fast to a two-state solution, even as
the powers around him insist that it is impossible. As
Palestine is torn apart by settlements and barricades,
corruption and violence, Nusseibeh remains true to the
ideals of his youth, determined to keep hold of some faint
hope for the life of his country.
Once Upon a
Country is a book with the scope and vitality of an
old-fashioned novel—one whose ending is still uncertain
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