Against the Loveless World
€13.95
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781526618818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | susan abulhawa |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.276 |
| Publishing Date | 05/08/2021 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.16 |
| Tax | €0.79 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.95 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''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.