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The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary Paperback – July 5, 2016

by Atef Abu Saif (Author)

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An ordinary Gazan’s “devastating contemporary war journal” that chronicles his fear, sadness, and boredom during Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient)

The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare. Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza lasted 51 days, killed 2,145 Palestinians (578 of them children), injured over 11,000 people, and demolished more than 17,000 homes.

Atef Abu Saif, a young father and novelist, puts an indelibly human face on these statistics, providing a rare window into the texture of a community and the realities of a conflict that is too often obscured by politics.

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“This stunning memoir reads more like poetry than prose.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“An indelibly memorable book...the saddest thing about The Drone Eats with Me is how long it’s likely to remain timely.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“Saif sets politics aside in order to focus on both the human tragedy that continues to play out there and the power of hope. An important addition to Middle Eastern literature.”
—Booklist, Starred Review

“‘Without a TV, we stand by the window and watch Gaza, together. Fields of darkness spread out in all directions. The ghost of a city. The only lights are those of the drones and F16s hovering above it all.’ The Drone Eats with Me is a devastating contemporary war journal. This is what war is like in the twenty-first century—the voice of a civilian in the onslaught of drone warfare, a voice we have never heard before.”
—Michael Ondaatje, author of Divisadero

“In this luminous account of Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza, Atef Abu Saif creates a literary equivalent to Goya’s Disasters of War. The Drone Eats with Me deserves to become a modern classic of war literature. But for all the surrealist absurdity of the horrors Abu Saif chronicles, the book pulses throughout with the sublime, mundane, and ferocious love for life.”
—Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood

"Atef Abu Saif’s journal of the incessant bombing of the Gaza Strip during the summer of 2014 presents a voice we usually do not hear. Saif gives names and faces to the anonymous people presented in the daily news. His personal account, presented clearly and passionately, is testimony that must be heard.”
—Mary Fran Buckley, Eight Cousins (Falmouth, MA)

“Written with the unapologetic immediacy of a journalist and father, The Drone Eats With Me is an essential guide to life in modern Gaza. Atef Abu Saif’s chronicle of living in the age of drone warfare will stir the reader’s heart.”
—Erin Goss, Left Bank Books (St. Louis, MO)

“I hope this book is read with an open heart and mind by Americans of all religions and from all regions, and across the world, too. It’s not an easy read, but I feel better and more informed having read it...Saif’s memoir about a family attempting normalcy during modern-day wartime takes you into a world we read plenty of headlines about but may not understand when it comes to day-to-day life.”
—Sue Roegge, Chapter2Books (Hudson, WI)

“It’s difficult to read, the way many war memoirs are, but it feels important to witness what this man experienced. Thoughtful and beautifully written, this book will leave you with a lot to think about.”
—Ingrid Goatson, Boulder Book Store (Boulder, CO)

About the Author

Atef Abu Saif was born in Jabalia Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip in 1973. He is the author of five novels, including A Suspended Life, which was shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arab Fiction. He lives with his family in Gaza.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press (July 5, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807049107
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807049105
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.66 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ann Wright

This book about the physical and psychological trauma of the ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2016

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This book about the physical and psychological trauma of the Israeli use of assassin drone in Gaza is really important. At the end of the 51 day Israeli attack on Gaza in 2014, 2310 Palestinians had been killed, 10,600 wounded, including 3,300 children. 872 homes were totally destroyed or severely damaged, and the homes of 5,005 families were damaged but still inhabitable. 138 schools were damaged or destroyed, 26 hospitals and health facilities were damaged. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), over 273,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had been displaced of whom 236,375 (over eleven percent of the Gazan population) were taking shelter in 88 United Nations schools.

Palestinian militias shot homemade rockets killing 66 Israeli soldiers, 5 Israeli civilians, including one child, and one Thai citizen in Israel.

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights documents that, from 2008 until October 2013, out of 2,269 Palestinians killed by Israel, 911 were killed by drones, most during the 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead. In the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, 143 out of 171 Palestinians killed by Israel were by drone attack.[...]

In the 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights documents 497 Palestinians killed by drones, 32 percent of Palestinian deaths. [...]

Atef Abu Saif's book about the psychological terror of drones is important as not only Israel, but the United States uses assassin drones. The US assassin drones eat with families in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and wherever the US decides it should go.

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Sophie

A Gaza Diary that is so very sad and heartbreaking

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2021

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This book is written like a diary with dates and what happened on those dates n and around Gaza. The stories are so very sad and heartbreaking. Cannot believe the trauma and tragedy of families suffering. Do not wish to get political with this review. Get the book and read for yourselves the truth of the matter. You will not hear of this in mainstream media.

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connetta

How the Other Half Lives Under Occupation

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2021

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Wonderful prose describing how people cope & live their life in a war ravaged area of the world.

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Kimberly Wine

The sentences are achingly beautiful. The subject timely and important

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2018

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Everyone should read this book. The sentences are achingly beautiful. The subject timely and important.

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HA

like watching paint dry. boring

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016

boring

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Indiana Steve

Could Have Been So Much Better

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2021

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This book rates four, maybe four and a half stars for its depiction of the plight of non-combatants during armed conflicts. But I'm forced to give it just two stars for its completely one-sided view of the 2014 Israeli-Palestinian "war". The fact that the conflict started because three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas (the Palestinie "militia",aka terrorist organization) is never mentioned. The author goes to great lengths to detail the rocket and bomb attacks by Israeli planes, warships, drones and tanks but fails to mention that more than 4,500 rockets fired into Israel by Hamas, most from launchers callously "hidden" in residential areas, thereby drawing Israeli fire into these neighborhoods. He writes of the constant presence of drones, planes, ships and tanks firing rockets and dropping bombs but never once mentions hearing a Hamas rocket going the other way.He fails to note that Hamas rockets killed 13 Gazans, 11 of them children, or the more than 70 Israeli soldiers and civilians killed by Hamas.

The book would have been much more complete and believable and much less of an anti-Israel propaganda piece had the author given a balanced account of things he no doubt heard, saw, and was told. This avoidable bias lessens the impact of what was otherwise a gritty and tragic depiction of life during wartime for the average civilian in a war zone.

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KittyKolektor

Feels like Current Times

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024

Atef shared his journal kept during the 51 day war on Gaza in 2014. I feel like this is just a sliver, one man’s experience, of what Palestinians are surviving now, in 2024. How hope and death keep one company while war eats one’s homeland. Definitely a must read.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2023

Beautifully written story and a narrative that is so often forgotten or dehumanized

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