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SUMMARY:Arnon Grunberg meets Adania Shibli
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DESCRIPTION:Arnon Grunberg speaks with Palestine’s most prominent writer\, 
	Adania Shibli.\nWhat role can fiction still bear amidst the ongoing Nakba 
	and its acceleration\nin recent years?\n\nIn Adania Shibli’s new novel Mis
	leiding (Deception)\, a young woman and a young\nman are violently pushed 
	ever further to the edge of existence. There is no\nmention of places or d
	ates\; only the seasons change. After decades of\ncolonisation\, military 
	occupation and the failed peace plans of the 1990s\, their\nlives are maim
	ed and driven apart\, and their dreams slowly fade.\n\nWith razor-sharp\, 
	minimalist prose\, Shibli lays bare the constant threat of\nsubjugation\, 
	arrest and land confiscation\, and the relentless effort to turn\nPalestin
	ians into strangers in their own land. What she maintains unwritten\nweigh
	s as heavily as what she writes.\n\nThis evening\, Adania Shibli and Arnon
	 Grunberg pick up after their conversation\nin 2023. Shibli is a writer wh
	o has long explored power\, narrative complicity\nand the vulnerability of
	 the individual and language. How to narrate what can’t\nbe put into words
	? What role can fiction still bear amidst the ongoing Nakba and\nits accel
	eration in recent years?
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/arnon-grunberg-meets-adania-shibli
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LOCATION:De Balie - Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10\, 1017 RR Amsterdam
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CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,idee & verbeelding,leidseplein
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Arnon Grunberg speaks with Palestin
	e’s most prominent writer, Adania Shibli. What role can fiction still bear
	 amidst the ongoing Nakba and its acceleration in recent years?</strong></
	p> <p>In Adania Shibli’s new novel Misleiding (Deception), a young woman a
	nd a young man are violently pushed ever further to the edge of existence.
	 There is no mention of places or dates; only the seasons change. After de
	cades of colonisation, military occupation and the failed peace plans of t
	he 1990s, their lives are maimed and driven apart, and their dreams slowly
	 fade. </p> <p>With razor-sharp, minimalist prose, Shibli lays bare the co
	nstant threat of subjugation, arrest and land confiscation, and the relent
	less effort to turn Palestinians into strangers in their own land. What sh
	e maintains unwritten weighs as heavily as what she writes. </p> <p>This e
	vening, Adania Shibli and Arnon Grunberg pick up after their conversation 
	in 2023. Shibli is a writer who has long explored power, narrative complic
	ity and the vulnerability of the individual and language. How to narrate w
	hat can’t be put into words? What role can fiction still bear amidst the o
	ngoing Nakba and its acceleration in recent years?</p>
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