This is a fantastic piece, helping humanize the resistance and understanding the decisions that lead them to today. I havent read the novel, but just from the overview here, it reminds me of The Battle of Algiers, which, like TatC, both tragic and inspiring. Like always, thanks for writing!
Not exactly a flood of resistance novels coming out of the US, no surprise. I'm currently serializing a couple, and yesterday took a look at the counterrevolutionary culture of Empire reacting to the explicit anti Iraq war novel I wrote over two decades ago, in the year of the US invasion: https://fictiongutted.substack.com/p/homefront-chapter-one-and-new-homefront
Includes links to a sociopolitical study of literary oppression in empire. The great novelist of revolution Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o notes in Decolonising The Mind that “…the biggest weapon wielded and actually daily unleashed by imperialism … is the cultural bomb.” This seems to me to be true for the vast majority of places in the world where steel bombs are not dropping, at least not every day, but mind bombs are. And then the one thing leads to and allows the next.
I've looked around at all the indie bookstores in TO, the library, ABE, mainstream bookstores, used bookstores and it looks like, barring a miracle, you cant buy a physical copy. It's likely both out of print and being censored.
Thanks for this fascinating review of Sinwar's book. I look forward to reading it. The banning of his book reminds me of how apartheid South Africa treated Nelson Mandela. His famous Rivonia speech when he was found guilty of sabotage in 1964 was banned and photos of him from when he was imprisoned to when he was released were suppressed. Like Sinwar, Mandela also learnt the language of the oppressor, Afrikaans. Sinwar, like the other great iconic guerrilla fighter, Che Guevara died fighting for his cause. I pray that his martyrdom and the tragic genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza will not be in vain and that soon the world will recognise their inalienable rights, so long been denied, to justice, freedom, equality and their land. Free Palestine!
Available in digital format at Anna's Archive:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/bc02ec75bcdcfcaeb7b9068bc5bbb2c2
also in Arabic for those so endowed
Thank you, although I admit I’m having trouble navigating the website & how to download Sinwar’s book
Where can I find the original arabic version, please?
The Thorn and the Carnation (الشوك والقرنفل)
Yahya Sinwar
https://annas-archive.org/md5/77232a35e9aa1316fd3c19768403798c
شكرا
This is a fantastic piece, helping humanize the resistance and understanding the decisions that lead them to today. I havent read the novel, but just from the overview here, it reminds me of The Battle of Algiers, which, like TatC, both tragic and inspiring. Like always, thanks for writing!
Great review and overview.
Not exactly a flood of resistance novels coming out of the US, no surprise. I'm currently serializing a couple, and yesterday took a look at the counterrevolutionary culture of Empire reacting to the explicit anti Iraq war novel I wrote over two decades ago, in the year of the US invasion: https://fictiongutted.substack.com/p/homefront-chapter-one-and-new-homefront
Includes links to a sociopolitical study of literary oppression in empire. The great novelist of revolution Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o notes in Decolonising The Mind that “…the biggest weapon wielded and actually daily unleashed by imperialism … is the cultural bomb.” This seems to me to be true for the vast majority of places in the world where steel bombs are not dropping, at least not every day, but mind bombs are. And then the one thing leads to and allows the next.
It would be good to know how to obtain a copy. It would be useful, inspirational. I'm in Canada.
I'm at giaschipeter@gmail.com
Let me know....
Peter
I've looked around at all the indie bookstores in TO, the library, ABE, mainstream bookstores, used bookstores and it looks like, barring a miracle, you cant buy a physical copy. It's likely both out of print and being censored.
thanks where can one get a copy,great work, i watch the summary on yt every week,justin has great insights and a good manner of telling
Thanks for this fascinating review of Sinwar's book. I look forward to reading it. The banning of his book reminds me of how apartheid South Africa treated Nelson Mandela. His famous Rivonia speech when he was found guilty of sabotage in 1964 was banned and photos of him from when he was imprisoned to when he was released were suppressed. Like Sinwar, Mandela also learnt the language of the oppressor, Afrikaans. Sinwar, like the other great iconic guerrilla fighter, Che Guevara died fighting for his cause. I pray that his martyrdom and the tragic genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza will not be in vain and that soon the world will recognise their inalienable rights, so long been denied, to justice, freedom, equality and their land. Free Palestine!
Privileged to have stumbled upon this astonishing writer!!
I joined your Substack, Justin, in case YT decides to squash you. Keep up the great work, brother!✊
The book can also be found on libgen.is for free
Love from Iran to #FreePalestine 🇮🇷❤️🇵🇸 long live October 7th and resistance
Greatest humanitarianism at work here!
🇵🇸👏🏾🍉⭐️🇵🇸✊🏾