A River Dies of Thirst (Diaries)

Mahmoud Darwish
Paperback, 176 pages
9780863560613

‘It is through the poetry of Darwish that one learns what it meant, and still means, to be a Palestinian...He speaks for his people, but like all great poets he speaks for every human being.’ – New York Review of Books

Mahmoud Darwish was often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. In the summer of 2006, as Israel attacked Gaza and Lebanon, Darwish recorded his observations and feelings in poems, meditations, fragments and journal entries. The result is this remarkable collection, his last to come out in Arabic.

At once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance and play, Darwish’s musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity. In these pages, myth and dream are inseparable from truth.