Track Changes

By: Sayed Kashua, Mitch Ginsburg - translator

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Hailed as "an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight" (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents his masterful fourth novel Track Changes, which follows an Arab-Israeli man as he reckons with the weight of his past, his memories, and his cultural identity.

©2020 Sayed Kashua. English translation 2020 by Mitch Ginsburg. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

So sad, but beautiful

A tale of profound exile, both personal and political. So, so sad! But also beautiful.

Like a Greek tragedy, only quieter, more understated, and unmistakably Palestinian.

In Track Changes, Sayed Kashua weaves exile, memory, identity, and regret into a slim, devastating work. Narrated by Fajer Al‑Kaisi, the audiobook impresses with clear pacing and emotional nuance—until the voice actor slips into cartoonish female voices and awkward Arabic accents, as if overcompensating. Mother and father speak their native Arab tongue, why weird accent in English rendition of the book?! Why this theatrical misstep? Perhaps the effort to speak “as a woman” ruins it.
Still, the prose—stark, precise, elegiac—balances the uneasy narration. Kashua’s exploration of how we edit our own histories, and at what cost, is haunting. Highly recommended read.