The Tantouria – Radwa Ashour | Historical novel

In the book Al-Tantouriya, the late Egyptian writer and professor of comparative literature Radwa Ashour documented the massacre of Al-Tantouriya carried out by Zionist gangs in 1948, with her gentle style and usual accuracy, the author recreated scenes to the greatest extent possible. The novel was named Al-Tantouriya after the village of Al-Tantouriya located on the Palestinian coast south of Haifa, which in 1948 was subjected to a massacre at the hands of Zionist gangs. The novel addresses this massacre as a starting point and one of the main events, to follow the life of a family uprooted from the village and their life over nearly half a century until now, passing through the experience of refuge in Lebanon. The heroine of the novel is a woman from the village, and the reader follows her life from childhood to old age. The novel blends historical facts with literary creativity in its lines.