Strangers

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer and translator based in the UK. Her most recent book is Erasing Palestine (Verso 2023). Her translations from Persian with Kayvan Tahmasebian have received PEN Presents and PEN Translates awards from English PEN. She is currently working on a book entitled </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Doves Born from Light: Writers' Homes and Readers' Lives</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and an oral history of the Gaza Genocide with the Lighthouse Collective. She writes and edits The Textual Materialist newsletter and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics School of Oriental and African Studies University of London.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Throughout her vast oeuvre Rebecca Ruth Gould writes with poetic language. Her boundaries are liquid and wholly interwoven. Her stories pulse with reflection often unfolding as meta-narratives. Her writing abounds in historical texture as though she were offering us a tale rather than a treatise. -Saleh Razzouk Syrian writer and translator of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Strangers</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> into Arabic </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Gould makes no attempt to resolve the issues that divide and unite people or the wider religious and political dilemmas that divide the world. She leaves the reader with no happy ending for either subject. There is however a satisfying sense of a story romance allegory or both well told by a highly skilled and insightful storyteller. -Wendy Klein author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Mood Indigo</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (2016).</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Rebecca Ruth Gould demonstrates how love--self-possessed and stubborn--transcends the bounds of language culture and state repression. -David Cooke editor </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The High Window</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The language employed [by Gould] is the language of longing. I was touched by how much the narrator sees as well as by how much is held back. -Sabyasachi (Sachi) Nag author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Bloodlines</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (2009) and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Could You Please Please Stop Singing?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (2016)</span></p><p></p>