Salman Natour is a writer, journalist and playwright. He has published twenty-eight books and six plays in Hebrew and Arabic. He is the former editor of al-Atyhad magazine in Ramallah. Natour’s latest novel, Memory Talked to Me and Walked Away, describes stories and scenes from a Palestinian village after the war of 1948.
‘No other inanimate object retains emotion as strongly as keys do. Fingerprints are engraved on them as if the laws of wear and tear do not apply.’
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