The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom
Language: English
Published by Penguin, 2025
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- Title
- The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom
- Author
- Srour, Nasser Abu (Author)/ Leafgren, Luke (Translator)
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1802066438
- ISBN 13
- 9781802066432
- Item weight
- 0.24 kilograms
A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him
This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and did
Nasser 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.
This 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.
As 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.
A testimony of how the most difficult of circumstances can build a person up instead of tearing them down, The Tale of a Wall is an extraordinary record of the vast confinement and power of the mind.
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About the Author
Nasser Abu Srour was arrested in 1993 and sentenced to life in prison. While incarcerated, Abu Srour completed the final semester of a bachelor’s degree in English from Bethlehem University, and obtained a master’s degree in political science from Al-Quds University. The Tale of a Wall is his first book to appear in English.
Luke Leafgren is an Assistant Dean of Harvard College. He has translated seven novels from Arabic, including Muhsin Al-Ramli’s The President’s Gardens, for which he received the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
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