A Long Walk from Gaza
Asmaa Alatawna
A coming-of-age novel about a girl seeking freedom from occupation, patriarchy, and the estrangement of exile.
Asmaa Alatawna’s novel follows a teenage protagonist through Gaza: a strict and abusive father, a first crush, confrontations with occupation soldiers, and eventually departure for Europe. The political and the intimate are not parallel plots. Each authority enters the same life and each shapes what freedom can mean.
The narration begins in Europe and moves backward toward birth and childhood. Gaza emerges as a lived society rather than a setting for catastrophe alone, with humour, contradiction, friendship, gendered constraint, and the pain of becoming distant from home.
Details
- Published by Interlink Books, Summer 2024
- Paperback ISBN 978-1-62371-685-1
- 186 pages
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Connected in the archive
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on a related subject — 32 records
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- Water to Water: Gaza Renga
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "gaza", "exile".
- 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "gaza".
- After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "exile".
- Beit Hanounبيت حانون
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "gaza".
- Deir al-Balahدير البلح
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "gaza".
- Edward Said: The Question of Palestine
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "exile".
- and 26 more
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“A Long Walk from Gaza.” Library, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/library/a-long-walk-from-gaza/.- MLA
“A Long Walk from Gaza.” Library, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/library/a-long-walk-from-gaza/. Accessed 22 August 2026.- BibTeX
@misc{falasteen-a-long-walk-from-gaza, title = {A Long Walk from Gaza}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/library/a-long-walk-from-gaza/}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }