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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 PALIN 'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIF Winner of the 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.
| EAN: | 9781526618818 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 05.08.2021 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Beilage: | Paperback |
| Autoren: | Abulhawa, Susan |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 384 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / General |
| Keyword: | Against a Loveless World; Susan Abulhawa; The Blue Between Sky and Water; Mornings in Jenin; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Palestinian resistance; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; Elif Shafak; 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World; My Sister the Serial Killer; Oyinke Braithwaite |
| Fachschema: | Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Arabien / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Geschichte / Einführung, Gesamtdarstellung, Überblick~Kuwait~Naher Osten - Nahost~Nahost~Palästina / Roman, Erzählung~Arabien~Südarabien~Asien / Geschichte |
| Fachkategorie: | Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte~Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens~Asiatische Geschichte, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik |
| Region: | Palästina~Kuwait |
| Seitenanzahl: | XVIII, 366 |
| Verlag: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 131 mm |
| Höhe: | 27 mm |
| Gewicht: | 273 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |