Mornings in Jenin (eBook)

Susan Abulhawa (Autor)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
480 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4088-1081-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Palestine, 1941. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor, the ancient cycle of the seasons providing another bountiful harvest.

1948. The Abulheja family are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli soldier, the other who in sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause will become his enemy. Amal's own dramatic story threads its way through six decades of Palestinian-Israeli tension, eventually taking her into exile in Pensylvania in America.

Amal's is a story of love and loss, of childhood, marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Richly told and full of humanity, Mornings in Jenin forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetime. It is an extraordinary debut.

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A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppressionOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 'A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure' Michael Palin 'Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior' Alice Walker _____________________________________Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever.Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and four generations of one of the most intractable conflicts of our lifetime._____________________________________Readers love Mornings in Jenin'The most heartbreaking novel I have ever, so far, come to read' Goodreads review, 5 stars'Within the sadness of its pages glimmers hope for reconciliation and peace' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'The perfect example of how fiction has the power to change and inform us' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Tragic, powerful, haunting, enlightening, absorbing and devastating' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'It made me weep every few pages, laugh out loud on others A truly great read' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4088-1081-6 / 1408810816
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-1081-1 / 9781408810811