The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story

Ramzy Baroud
With a Foreword by llan Pappe
Paperback, 280 pages
9780745337999

Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it.

Ordinary Palestinians have rarely narrated their own history. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed author Ramzy Baroud draws on dozens of interviews to produce vivid, intimate and beautifully written accounts of Palestinian lives - in villages, refugee camps, prisons and cities, in the lands of their ancestors and in exile. Baroud's empathetic and lyrical approach reveals new human dimensions of the Palestinian saga, telling it as it has never before been told.

Against dominant narratives, the last earth reclaims Palestine's past - and present - for all its people.

Contents:
Foreword by Ilan Pappe
1. Shit River
2. Abu Sandal - The One with the Slippers
3. Spirit of the Orchard
4. Death Notice
5. Jesus of Beit Jala
6. Letters to Heba
7. Alive in Gaza
8. The Last Sky
9. Dawn
Postscript: Echoes of History