Bøger af Susan Abulhawa

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.

Entre las luces y sombras de una guerra una mujer palestina lo sacrificará todoAcusada de pertenecer a una célula terrorista, Nahr purga una condena en aislamiento solitario mientras recuerda los dramáticos eventos que la llevaron hasta ese momento extremo. Nacida en Kuwait en los años setenta e hija de refugiados palestinos, Nahr soñaba con enamorarse del hombre perfecto, tener hijos y abrir su propio salón de belleza. Sin embargo, el hombre que creía amar la abandonó después de un breve matrimonio, su familia quedó sumida en la pobreza y ella se vio arrastrada hasta Irak, donde fue forzada a prostituirse y, tras la invasión estadounidense, terminó por convertirse en una refugiada como lo fueron sus padres. Cuando por fin consigue escapar a Palestina tras una breve estancia en Jordania, se enamora y forma un hogar, aunque su destino vuelve a dar un giro, arrebatándole, tal vez, la última oportunidad de ser feliz.Una novela asombrosa y poética que nos presenta la mirada subversiva, salpicada de humor y ambigüedad moral, de una joven que, en su búsqueda de encontrar una vida mejor, se radicaliza poco a poco. Una lectura imperdible y emocionante sobre las muchas caras del mundo árabe, donde guerras y conflictos religiosos no dejan de generar estragos.

2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist ';Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us.' Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prizewinning author In this ';beautiful...urgent' novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East.As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Nahr's subversive humor and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer, and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties. Written with Susan Abulhawa's distinctive ';richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant' (Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim.

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that does for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century of violent history. Amidst the loss and fear, hatred and pain, as their tents are replaced by more forebodingly permanent cinderblock huts, there is always the waiting, waiting to return to a lost home.The novel's voice is that of Amal, the granddaughter of the old village patriarch, a bright, sensitive girl who makes it out of the camps, only to return years later, to marry and bear a child. Through her eyes, with her evolving vision, we get the story of her brothers, one who is kidnapped to be raised Jewish, one who will end with bombs strapped to his middle. But of the many interwoven stories, stretching backward and forward in time, none is more important than Amal's own. Her story is one of love and loss, of childhood and marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Set against one of the twentieth century's most intractable political conflicts, Mornings in Jenin is a deeply human novel - a novel of history, identity, friendship, love, terrorism, surrender, courage, and hope. Its power forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining conflicts of our lifetimes.