Tales for Those Who Hate Sleep

About this book

Tales for Those Who Hate Sleep moves first through Palestinian legends, then descends into the vitality of popular storytelling before surfacing in the narrator's own world. Marwan Mohamed combines fantasy and reality, allowing politics and resistance to appear through wit, strangeness, and the rhythms of oral narrative. The collection culminates in the tales of Atef Al-Ashra, where inherited forms of storytelling meet personal experience. These are stories for wakeful readers who prefer another voice to the quiet of sleep.