{"product_id":"al-as-39-ad-mohammad-children-opb","title":"[09\/29\/26] Al-As'ad, Mohammad: Children of the Dew","description":"\u003cp\u003eTilted Axis Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Maia Tabet \u0026amp; Anaheed Al-Hardan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 29, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner, English PEN Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the late Palestinian poet Mohammad Al-As'ad comes a chronicle of the vanished village from which he was expelled, its geography, and its people.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren of the Dew\u003c\/i\u003e is the late poet Mohammad Al-As'ad's first venture into literature beyond poetry. Genre bending poetic prose, the work centres on the expulsion of the author and his family from Umm al-Zinat, a Palestinian Mt. Carmel village in the Haifa district, upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between the author's childhood memories, the villager's stories, and the later exile to eastern Palestine and eventually southern Iraq, \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Dew\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting poetic representation in magic realist style of the Nakba, the event which continues to structure the Palestinian quest for freedom and liberation in historic Palestine and in exile today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Mahmoud Darwish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118189109271,"sku":"9781917126236","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71_PK1RWwsL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780702043","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/al-as-39-ad-mohammad-children-opb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}