My Salwa My Palestine

June 1947 was the eve of the end of the world for 18-year-old Palestinian Yousif Safi. In this captivating novel, author Ibrahim Fawal recreates the year-long journey of a boy becoming a man, while all that he has even known crumbles around him. As his fellow villagers and countrymen face the imminent establishment of Israel on May 15, 1948, Yousif resolves to face his own responsibilities of manhood.