The only writer to win the highest awards for literature from both the PLO and the Israeli government by a Palestinian Israeli. This modern classic explores the frality of Palestinian life by a man who attempts to avoid politics only to get sucked in as first a "terrorist" and then an "Israeli collaborator". Having served as a member of the Israeli Knesset, Emile Habiby draws from his own frustrations as a Palestinian politician in the absurd politics of the Israeli Knesset

.The author's own anger and sorrow at Palestine's tragedy and his acquaintance with the absurdities of Israeli politics (he was once a member of Israel's parliament himself) are here transmuted into satire both biting and funny.