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Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award
Susan Abulhawa
Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award
Susan Abulhawa
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.
256 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 5, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9781526618818 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Pages | 384 |
Dimensions | 197 × 129 × 27 mm · 274 g |
Language | English |
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