Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

GROVE PRESS

Recognizing the Stranger

Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Recognizing The Stranger

Knopf Canada

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Vintage

The Parisian

JONATHAN CAPE.

<p>A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine'Different to anything else being written right now in English'SUNDAY TIMES'A vital storyteller, a writer of real rhythmic grace'ALI SMITH, author of AUTUMN'A pretty flawless writer'THE TIMESAfter years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. While Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.When Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing Gertrude's lines in classical Arabic with a dedicated group of men who, in spite of competing egos and priorities, all want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer and the warring intensifies, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad's highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite story of the connection to be found in family and shared resistance.</p>

<p>A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful Zadie Smith As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself. Midhat Kamal navigates his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous Paris. He discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong.Isabella Hammad delicately untangles the politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century and the looming shadow of the Second World War. An intensely human story amidst a global conflict, The Parisian is historical fiction with a remarkable contemporary voice. *AN OBSERVER HOTLY TIPPED DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2019*</p>

Romance

Military

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

RHUK

Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Fern Press

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