Palestine -1

A daring response to the events of the last year, and the ongoing genocide taking place in Gaza, with an unexpected approach to the event that underpins the entire Middle East conflict: the Nakba of 1948. Instead of taking a semi-realist, autobiographical or non-fictional response to this event, this anthology asks 10 Palestinian writers, all of whose grandparents were forcibly displaced by the events of 1948, to re-imagine Palestine the year before this catastrophe, and to explore the events leading up to it, on a village-by-village basis. Every writer has been allocated a specific village to write about, and challenged to explore the atmosphere of this moment through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices. Rather like its counterpart anthology, 'Palestine +100', it uses genre tropes to re-examine this experience.