In 1985, Raja Shehadeh's father - a leading civil rights lawyer - was stabbed to death in Ramallah. The Israeli police failed to investigate the murder properly and Shehadeh, a lawyer himself, set about solving the crime that destroyed his family. In STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE, Shehadeh recounts his troubled and complex relationship with his father and his experience of exile - of being a stranger in his own land. It is a remarkable memoir that combines the personal and political to devastating effect.