We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

Powerful ... It's a mark of Shehadeh's brilliance that this latest revisiting is full of surprises: it's even in tone, but jet-fuelled by implicit emotion; there's no conventional suspense, but it is absolutely gripping ... masterly -- Rachel Aspden * Guardian *
Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi ... A quiet and deeply felt book -- Hisham Matar * New York Times *
A striking story of loss, heartbreak and political perfidy ... This is a tragedy within a tragedy, of a father and son who, despite their similarities, failed to understand one another, against the backdrop of dispossession of the Palestinian people -- Lara Marlowe * Irish Times *
Highly readable ... thought-provoking * Observer *
A formidable Palestinian thinker... this is a humbling effort to document [his father's] legacy -- Tareq Baconi * New York Review of Books *
Slim but powerful - rich in recent historical detail with a poignant personal trauma threading in and out of it. This is a Palestinian memoir that will endure * Church Times *
Praise for the author: 'Palestine's greatest prose writer * Observer *
Going Home cements the author's reputation as the best-known Palestinian writing in English * Guardian *
Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent walking companion * Prospect *
Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise -- Colm Tóibín
Raja Shehadeh is a buoy in a sea of bleakness -- Rachel Kushner