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Gaza: The Story of a Genocide Paperback – 6 January 2026
by Fatima Bhutto (Author)
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Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people-their lives, their land, and their future.
Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Barghouti examines the brutality of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, while Eman Bashir describes the phenomenon of a "wounded child, no surviving family." These voices, among many others, illuminate the enduring psychological, physical, and generational toll of state violence.
With contributions from recipients of the Palestine Book Award, Arab American Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, National Book Award, and Gandhi Peace Award, this collection also honors the late poet Hiba Abu Nada-killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 20, 2023.
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This absorbing collection uses-to remarkable effect-a variety of forms and voices to convey the devastating reality of Gaza ― Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire
An absolutely vital compendium of intellectual and emotional scholarship about not only the ongoing grotesquerie of crimes committed against the Palestinian people, but the very nature of colonialism and apartheid. There is so much incisive, fearless and honest writing here, but also immense beauty of language, immense humanity. This is a landmark anthology ― Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
This book comes at a time when so many feel there are no more words left to describe the second Nakba unfolding in Gaza. Yet every writer in these pages reminds us that there are words still to speak, and silence is not an option. Enraged, defiant, mournful, and yes, hopeful, the writings in Gaza shed light on a world devouring itself with astonishing cruelties. To read this magnificent, wide-ranging book is an act of reclamation of the dead, of the still living, and those yet to be born in Gaza ― Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, finalist for the Booker Prize
About the Author
Fatima Bhutto's books include the novels The Runaways and The Shadow of The Crescent Moon, longlisted for the Women's Prize and winner of the 2014 Prix de la Romanciere. Her non-fiction books include Songs of Blood and Sword and New Kings of the World. She is the co-founder, with Sonia Faleiro and Julia Churchill, of Books for Gaza.
Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Good Girls, nominated for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction, and the Premio Feltrinelli, and Beautiful Thing, shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. She is the founder of the literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks and co-founder of Books for Gaza. Based in London, she is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.
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Publication date : 6 January 2026
Language : English
Print length : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 183674224X
ISBN-13 : 978-1836742241
Item weight : 200 g
Dimensions : 13.08 x 1.91 x 19.76 cm
Genre : Testimonial literature
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christopher anthony
5 out of 5 stars
BE READY .........TO CRY
Reviewed in the United States on 9 March 2026
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BOOK ARRIVED IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.........FAR MORE POWERFUL WRITING THAN I HAD EXPECTED.... AND I WANTED SOMETHING POWERFUL THAT WOULD ENABLE MY STUDENTS TO FEEL IN THEIR SOULS THE HORROR THAT israel HAS CAUSED IN GAZA....THE CRUEL RASCIST HATE THAT NOURISHES THIS LEVEL OF GENOCIDE.....AND THE HATEFUL RASCIST CALLOUS NATURE OF THE West THAT ENABLES SUCH A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND GOD....WHATEVER YOU FEEL GOD TO BE........THIS BOOK IS THE BEGINNING OF THE TELLING OF THE TRUTH
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Laura
5 out of 5 stars
Heart wrenching
Reviewed in Belgium on 6 February 2026
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It’s hard to put positive review into words of a book made up of personal horror experiences. If you want to share in the atrocities and suffering of this people, then this is the book you want. I have a couple others like it, but this one is really detailed and penetrating. You have to read it in doses, like a chapter or two per day max. You will truly understand how psychotic the heartless monstrous perpetrators are.
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Fatima Bhutto's books include the novels The Runaways and The Shadow of The Crescent Moon, longlisted for the Women's Prize and winner of the 2014 Prix de la Romanciere. Her non-fiction books include Songs of Blood and Sword and New Kings of the World. She is the co-founder, with Sonia Faleiro and Julia Churchill, of Books for Gaza.
Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Good Girls, nominated for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction, and the Premio Feltrinelli, and Beautiful Thing, shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. She is the founder of the literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks and co-founder of Books for Gaza. Based in London, she is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.
TopAbout this itemSimilarFrom the AuthorQuestionsReviews
Publication date : 6 January 2026
Language : English
Print length : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 183674224X
ISBN-13 : 978-1836742241
Item weight : 200 g
Dimensions : 13.08 x 1.91 x 19.76 cm
Genre : Testimonial literature
Top reviews from Australia
There are 0 reviews from Australia
Top reviews from other countries
christopher anthony
5 out of 5 stars
BE READY .........TO CRY
Reviewed in the United States on 9 March 2026
Format: Paperback
Verified Purchase
BOOK ARRIVED IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.........FAR MORE POWERFUL WRITING THAN I HAD EXPECTED.... AND I WANTED SOMETHING POWERFUL THAT WOULD ENABLE MY STUDENTS TO FEEL IN THEIR SOULS THE HORROR THAT israel HAS CAUSED IN GAZA....THE CRUEL RASCIST HATE THAT NOURISHES THIS LEVEL OF GENOCIDE.....AND THE HATEFUL RASCIST CALLOUS NATURE OF THE West THAT ENABLES SUCH A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND GOD....WHATEVER YOU FEEL GOD TO BE........THIS BOOK IS THE BEGINNING OF THE TELLING OF THE TRUTH
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Laura
5 out of 5 stars
Heart wrenching
Reviewed in Belgium on 6 February 2026
Format: Paperback
Verified Purchase
It’s hard to put positive review into words of a book made up of personal horror experiences. If you want to share in the atrocities and suffering of this people, then this is the book you want. I have a couple others like it, but this one is really detailed and penetrating. You have to read it in doses, like a chapter or two per day max. You will truly understand how psychotic the heartless monstrous perpetrators are.
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