# The Dance of the Deep–Blue Scorpion

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- Authors: [Akram Musallam](https://www.bookquiver.com/akram-musallam)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2022-01-28
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor. On a plastic chair in a parking lot in Ramallah sits a young man writing a novel, reflecting on his life: working in a dance club on the Israeli side of the border, scratching his father’s amputated leg, dreaming nightly of a haunting scorpion, witnessing the powerful aura of his mountain-lodging aunt. His work in progress is a meditation on absence, loss, and emptiness. He poses deep questions: What does it mean to exist? How can you confirm the existence of a place, a person, a limb? How do we engage with what is no longer there? Absurd at times, raw at others, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion explores Palestinian identity through Akram Musallam’s extended metaphors in the hope of transcending the loss of territory and erasure of history.

## Editions

### The Dance of the Deep–Blue Scorpion

- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- ISBN: 978-08-5742-893-6
- Pages: 132
- Published: 2022-01-28
- Language: en_US