The author meets Momo, a Palestinian refugee from the Syrian civil war, in 2018 and decides to tell his story and that of his family: from the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948, his childhood and youth in Damascus and the 2011 revolution, to prison, torture and exile, first to Denmark and then to Sweden, where he still lives and works with adolescents fleeing the war. Halfway between a novel, a memoir and a diary, this true story of a double exile is also an analysis of survivor’s guilt and the prejudices faced by an Arab immigrant in Europe. 

“I met Momo in the summer of 2018. Since then we have worked on the story of his family. The book begins in 1948 during the Nakba (Arabic word for “catastrophe”) and reaches the present time. It goes through Momo’s childhood and youth in Damascus, the Syrian Revolution of 2011, his time in prison where he was tortured and, finally, the exile, first to Denmark and then to Sweden where he currently lives with his German girlfriend and works with teenagers who have also fled war.”