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My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness

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My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
Yale University Press, April 2009

"Luminous ... Hoffman presents readers with a subtle, moving evocation of the human realities of the Palestinian experience, rooted in land and memory."
Publishers Weekly, starred review

"[A] superb biography ... Hoffman writes with a narrative brio ... A remarkable achievement."
 
"Beautifully written ... [This] is not only the biography of a remarkable man; it is an act of reclamation against the erosions of memory."

"I would place My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness among the five 'must read' books on the Israel-Palestine tragedy."
–Michael Sells, author of Approaching the Qur'an

"A remarkable book ... A triumph of personal empathy and historical insight, and a beacon for anyone who knows that 'more joins than separates us.'"
–Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

One of Booklist's top ten biographies of 2009

One of Barnes & Noble Review's best books of 2009

One of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore's best 20 books of 2009

Winner of the UK's 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.

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House of Windows
 

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House of Windows
Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood
Steerforth Press, 2000
Broadway Books (paperback), 2002

"The writing is as poignant and layered as the subjects she writes about–and by detailing the ways history and culture play out in the day-to-day lives of the residents of one of the world's most contentious cities, she adds nuance and complexity to a much-studied subject."
Publishers Weekly

"This remarkable work of non-fiction, wonderfully written, takes us deep inside the lives ... of the people who are virtually invisible outside of Israel."
The Independent

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