Arabesques

Non-linear story and fragmented story line -- like the lives of its family characters. A wanderlust possesses key ancestors and their progeny, each finding a way to claim and re-establish roots.

Anton Shammas is a Palestinian Christian Arab. He is well known for the novel Arabesques, written in Hebrew and chronically the history of the Shammas family in both Palestine, Israel and Lebanon.

I flat out loved this book from page one. Above all it is a celebration of storytelling itself, as its free-associating narrator weaves together an intricate pattern of stories that make up three generations of family history.