A Country Doctor is the third such volume of Kafka's stories published by Prague's Twisted Spoon Press, following A HUNGER ARTIST and CONTEMPLATION. It includes 15 stories and sketches, included the famed parable "Before the Law, " "Jackals and Arabs, " "A Fratricide" and "A Report from an Academy" among them. ImPorted from the Czech Republic.

A Country Doctor is the third such volume of Kafka's stories published by Prague's Twisted Spoon Press, following A HUNGER ARTIST and CONTEMPLATION. It includes 15 stories and sketches, included the famed parable "Before the Law, " "Jackals and Arabs, " "A Fratricide" and "A Report from an Academy" among them. ImPorted from the Czech Republic.

A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side with Israelis at the Hebrew University through his appointment by Yasir Arafat to administer the Arab Jerusalem, he has held fast to the principles of freedom and equality f...(展开全部)

A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side with Israelis at the Hebrew University through his appointment by Yasir Arafat to administer the Arab Jerusalem, he has held fast to the principles of freedom and equality f...(展开全部)

A prominent Palestinian's searching, anguished, deeply affecting autobiography, in which his life story comes to be the story of the recent history of his country. Sari Nusseibeh’s autobiography is a remarkable book—one in which his dramatic life story and that of his embattled country converge in a work of great passion, depth, and emotional power. Nusseibeh was raised to repr...(展开全部)

These extraordinary memoirs give us a rare view into what the Arab-Israeli conflict has meant for one Palestinian family over the generations. Nusseibeh also interweaves his own story with that of the Palestinians as a people, always speaking his mind, and apportioning blame where he feels it due. Hated by extremists on both sides, his is a rare voice. "This autobiography carri...(展开全部)

Born into a prominent family with deep roots in Jerusalem, Nusseibeh reluctantly became involved in politics, constantly aware that co-existence with Israel is possible. Hated by extremists on both sides, he has always held fast to the principles of freedom and equality which have guided all his decisions, no matter what the personal cost. His beautifully-written memoirs, inter...(展开全部)