Against the Loveless World

Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
5 Aug 2021 UK
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9781526618818
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' A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO' A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL' Wonderful . . . Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALINNahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things, and had many names. She was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a second class citizen love is a kind of desperation; she learned, above all else, to survive. She was a girl who went to Palestine in the wrong shoes, and without looking for it found what she had always lacked in the basement of a battered beauty parlour: purpose, politics, friends. She found a dark-eyed man called Bilal, who taught her to resist; who tried to save her when it was already too late. Nahr sits in the Cube, and tells her story to Bilal. Bilal, who isn' t there; Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.
A thrilling, defiant novel . . . Reads as a riot act against oppression, misogyny, and shame -- FATIMA BHUTTO Nahr is a wonderful creation, strong-willed, passionate, unapologetic and adventurous. Her refusal to accept the subordination expected of her propels the story at a thrilling pace. Her determination to find love in a loveless world and her unquenchable spirit in adversity shines a ray of hope into some very dark places -- MICHAEL PALIN A masterpiece . . . Forces us to wrestle with the complexities of love, freedom, struggle, and shame in ways that both inspire and challenge our very conceptions of what it means to be human. A major literary contribution that further cements Abulhawa' s status as one of the most important writers of our generation -- MARC LAMONT HILL The writer' s pain - and the beauty of her prose - are very real * Daily Telegraph * One of the most thought-provoking books I' ve read . . . written with passion and honesty, and poetry * Daily Mail * Abulhawa' s writing shines . . . Friendship, adolescence, love: ordinary events, offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live * Independent * Hard to bear but impossible to ignore . . . Shows how history' s assault on each person is public, and how it nevertheless cannot extinguish the private experience of grief or the secret sense of eros. Abulhawa' s vision is precise, courageous, and dazzling -- Teju Cole In true Thousand and One Nights style, Abulhawa surprises us by continually unfolding new stories . . . Characters struggle to keep their secrets, but Abulhawa releases them. These are secrets we need to know, secrets that will educate us about ourselves * Guardian * A transformative literary grace. Abulhawa' s prose is luminous * Independent on Sunday * A fine observer of female kinship . . . A powerful read * Financial Times * A family saga with global reach, these stories jump off the page and into the soul and reach far beyond any headline or statistic, past the head, to the heart -- Laleh Khadivi A giant step in the development of Palestinian fiction. The book is a great feat of imagination and storytelling * Raja Shehadeh * Readers . . . are sure to be charmed by Abulhawa' s glittering language and to remember (and love) the characters long after the book has ended * Washington Independent Review of Books * Powerful and moving * Stylist *
Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967, when her family' s land was seized and Israel captured what remained of Palestine, including Jerusalem. She moved to the USA as a teenager, graduated in biomedical science and established a career in medical science. In July 2001, she founded Playgrounds for Palestine, a children' s organisation dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. She is the author of two novels, Mornings in Jenin, which was an international bestseller, and The Blue Between Sky and Water, and a book of poems. She lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter. @sjabulhawa
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781526618818
Published: 5 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 384

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