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Susan Abulhawa
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Comme son père, et comme le père de son père, Hassan vit de la culture des olives dans le petit village palestinien d'Ein Hod. Mais en 1948, lors du conflit qui suit la création de l'État d'Israël, Ein Hod est détruit et ses habitants conduits vers un camp de réfugiés. Pour Hassan, cet exil s'accompagne de la douleur de voir l'ancestral cycle familial brisé à jamais. Son jeune fils Ismaïl a été enlevé par des Israéliens qui lui cacheront ses origines. L'aîné, Youssef, grandira dans la haine des Juifs, prêt à toutes les extrémités. Quant à Amal, sa fille, elle tentera sa chance aux États-Unis, inconsolable cependant d'avoir fui les siens.
La guerre les a séparés. Elle seule pourra les réunir...
" L'écriture de Susan Abulhawa est à l'image de cette interminable tragédie, traversée de rancoeur, de naïveté, mais surtout d'une émotion, d'une poésie, d'une nostalgie, d'une tendresse auxquelles on ne résiste pas. " Robert Verdussen - La Libre Belgique @ Disponible chez 12-21 L'ÉDITEUR NUMÉRIQUE -
AGAINST THE LOVELESS WORLD ; WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARD
Susan Abulhawa
- Bloomsbury
- 5 Août 2021
- 9781526618818
''A thrilling, defiant novel'' FATIMA BHUTTO ''A masterpiece'' MARC LAMONT HILL ''Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places'' MICHAEL PALIN ''A fearless work of imagination'' AHDAF SOUEIF Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award Nahr 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.>
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A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppression
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
''A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure'' Michael Palin
''Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior'' Alice Walker
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Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms - and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever.
Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and four generations of one of the most intractable conflicts of our lifetime.
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