The reviews below are about Patricia Rantisi’s book Miriam’s Legacy. Miriam’s Legacy is a historical novel set in both Palestine and Lebanon.
Timothy Biles reviews Miriam’s Legacy
The author, Patricia Rantisi, spent 38 years living and working in Ramallah, married to a Palestinian priest. Together they ran an orphanage where she lived and worked with children traumatised by their experiences. After the death of her husband she returned to her home in England and has turned the tales she heard and the things she…
The Palestine Chronicle reviews Miriam’s Legacy
2008 marked the sixtieth year of the birth of the State of Israel, but also the year that Palestinians commemorate the ‘Nakba’ (catastrophe). 1948 was indeed a year of utter catastrophe for the indigenous Palestinian people. Thousands of men, women and children were either massacred or driven from their towns and villages by…