Arablit.org just posted an excellent report expressly about the attention THE TALE OF A WALL received at Frankfurt: https://arablit.org/2023/10/23/palestinian-prison-memoir-becomes-unlikely-topic-at-2023-frankfurt-book-fair/ 

Nasser Abu Srour是在以色列监狱里的4892名巴勒斯坦囚犯之一。他在服無期徒刑，没有任何假釋的可能性。从Nakba大灾难到《奥斯陆协议》的灾难性后果，他敏锐地解释了“滚石起义”如何最终为难民营中的年轻巴勒斯坦人提供了唯一的选择，让他们的生活充满意义，特别是在以色列情报机构的羞辱和操纵下服务是一个持续的威胁。这也是为什么他目前在服无期徒刑，他被折磨逼迫认罪后，承认自己杀害了一名辛贝特警。这名特警正在招募Abu Srour的表弟当线人。

Abu Srour使用了本该是囚捆他的一面墙转变成他对话者以及生存工具。他使用这面墙写下他的故事，以及他的爱情。透过这面墙，他创作了一个艺术品，里面渗透了他的痛、他的哀、他的爱。

关于作者：

NASSER ABU SROUR was imprisoned in 1993. While incarcerated, Abu Srour obtained a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in political science from Al-Quds University. Abu Srour is currently one of the petitioners in a legal case against the restrictions on showers in the Nafha prison, where he is being held. The Tale of a Wall is his first book to appear in English.

好评：

“Nasser Abu Srour doesn’t allow his long incarceration in an Israeli prison to break his spirt. He turns to the wall of his cell that is intended to confine him into his path to freedom, and in the process, out of the darkness of his cell produces a luminous memoir.” —Raja Shehadeh, author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

“In contemplating the meaning of freedom, and the prison walls enclosing him, Nasser Abu Srour has produced a richly emotional and affecting memoir. His poetic prose, lyrically translated by Luke Leafgren, ranges far beyond physical confines to evoke steadfastness and universal human dignity, through the intellectual curiosity of a writer ‘born into a family on the margins, living in a marginal place filled with marginal people.’ Its resonance, and Abu Srour’s vision, are far from marginal.” —Matthew Teller, author of Nine Quarters of Jerusalem

“An extraordinary memoir. Abu Srour is not just a witness of his personal life but a witness to one of the major tragedies of our times.” —Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

“A unique, lyrical exploration of what his inhumane confinement has taught him about resistance, love, lies, forgiveness, and the complicated struggle for liberation of his fractured, occupied land. Rather than allow the many walls surrounding him from childhood to break him down, he has turned them into darkly luminous companions on a journey into the heart of cruelty and redemption.” —Ariel Dorfman, author of The Suicide Museum