The Sky Is Incomplete

Translated from Spanish for the first time and with a new introduction to the English edition <i>The Sky Is Incomplete</i> comprises sixty short entries detailing life in and reflections on the Occupied Territories of Palestine in the twenty-first century over prolonged stays between 2007-2015. In this collection Irmgard Emmelhainz operates in the committed literature tradition of Walter Benjamin and André Gide in Moscow in the 1920s and Susan Sontag and Juan Goytisolo in Sarajevo in the 1990s-writers and cultural observers grappling with the political processes of others elsewhere.<br>  <br> In order to render the issue of representation of speaking on behalf of the Palestinian ordeal in all its complexity <i>The Sky Is Incomplete</i> is composed as a collage gathering diary entries letters experimental passages script poetry art criticism political analysis and other genres to convey an opaque view of the Palestine Question. Beyond representation in the sense of giving testimony or speaking on behalf of the Palestinians however the author's parting point is relational: <i>The Sky Is Incomplete</i> is about encounters-with friends mentors interlocutors lovers children activists and soldiers (Israeli and Palestinian).