Tantourism - Radwa Ashour

"The story is difficult. It is not told. It is complex. Heavy. How many wars can one story bear? How many massacres? Then how do I link small things, despite their importance, to the horrors we all lived through?" Radwa Ashour, The Tantourian Novel

The Sea of Tantura was strongly present in Ruqaya’s life, influencing her with its waves, its roaring sound, and its scent that filled the parts of Tantura. Her childhood friend collects her happy memories in him, so he memorizes them and broadcasts her grief, so she forgets him. Things were stable in the village until the partition decision came, so the coast line was from south of Acre to south of Jaffa and Tantura After the partition, they will enter within the scope of the Jewish state, so the people were disturbed and the men’s meetings increased in order to manage their affairs in what is to come. The Palestinian workers attacked the Jewish workers with sticks and knives. In response to what they did, the Jews attacked Balad al-Sheikh and a neighborhood of its outskirts inhabited by refinery workers from Ijzim, Ain Ghazal, and other villages with their wives and children. They attacked them with axes, knives, bombs, and guns, leaving behind many corpses and destruction.

A few weeks after that incident, refugees from Caesarea, which fell into the hands of the Jews, arrived in the village, and its people were forced to leave it. The people of Tantura hosted the refugees. Among the guests was a widow with two young children, a four-year-old boy called Abd al-Rahman, and a girl around Ruqayya’s age called Wesal and Betta. Two close friends, and the conditions in the village changed, and the men began to organize themselves to face the danger, and they began to buy weapons and formed a committee to organize the country’s guard, and they began to train in the use of weapons and aiming at rooftops.. The story of Ruqaya and her family continues with the great writer Radwa Ashour

Number of pages: 463

To request more books by Radwa Ashour:

1/ The Granada Trilogy

2/ Tantourism

3/ Heavier than Radwa

4/ The scream

5/ Spectra

6/ All oppressed have wings

7/ A piece of Europe

8/ warm stone

9/ The journey