Winner of the Aspen Words Literary PrizeWinner of the Royal Society of Literature's Encore AwardShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year“Assured and formidable.” — Wall Street JournalAfter years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sis...

**WINNER OF THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.‘I absolutely loved it’MONICA ALI’Remarkable… My heart will never be the same’BARBARA KINGSOLVER‘Moving and unfor...

A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie SmithMidhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong.

Dopo anni di lontananza dalla terra della sua famiglia, con un divorzio alle spalle e una relazione tossica in corso, delusa dalle prospettive di carriera che le offrono il teatro e la televisione in Inghilterra, Sonia Nasir vola a Haifa per far visita alla sorella maggiore Haneen. Nate entrambe a Londra da genitori palestinesi, Haneen si è costruita una vita in Israele insegnando all’Università di Tel Aviv, mentre Sonia è sempre rimasta nella capitale inglese per concentrarsi sul suo lavo...

‘A book that calls us to witness our place in history’ Sally RooneyAn urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women’s Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost.Award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before 7 October 2023. The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword written in the early weeks of 2024 together m...

WINNER OF THE SUE KAUFMAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARDWINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARDNational Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree“Superb . . . The Parisian makes history, and its actors, live once again.”—Boston GlobeA masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal ...

“Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing.” —Rashid Khalidi, New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Years’ War on PalestineFrom the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrativeNine days before October 7, 2023,...

Una historia de amor que es también la historia de una geografía en conflicto desde las Cruzadas.Estamos en 1914, a comienzos de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Los países árabes de Oriente Medio no existen aún. Jerusalén y Damasco pertenecen al Imperio otomano. El palestino Midhat viaja a Francia para estudiar medicina y se enamora de la hija de su anfitrión francés, pero durante una conversación se produce un malentendido y el joven se va a París, donde participa en p...

Una novela indispensable para entender el conflicto palestino desde el prisma de la vida cotidiana en conjunción con el arte.Sonia Nasir, de 38 años, actriz británica de origen palestino, viaja a Israel para visitar a su hermana, que da clases en la universidad de Haifa. No tarda en conocer a otros personajes, entre ellos a Mariam Mansour, directora teatral que quiere poner en escena una versión árabe de Hamlet en Ramala (Cisjordania). Cuando Mariam se ent...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Parisian written by Isabella Hammad, read by Fiona Button.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020**SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019*As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.Midhat Kamal picks his way across a ...

Una conferencia conmovedora y erudita sobre la lucha palestina y el poder de la narrativa.Pocos días antes de los ataques que Hamás llevó a cabo en la Franja de Gaza el 7 de octubre de 2023, Isabella Hammad pronunciaba en la Universidad de Columbia una conferencia en memoria de Edward W. Said en la que exponía con toda su crudeza el conflicto palestino-israelí y daba voz a la lucha palestina por la libertad.En un texto lleno de claridad moral y brillantez i...

Von einer Rückkehr nach Palästina und der Suche nach den eigenen Wurzeln in einem Land, das keines ist. Der neue, gefeierte Roman von Isabella Hammad - eine der "Best Young British Novelists under 40" (Granta)Nach vielen Jahren in London und einer schmerzhaft gescheiterten Beziehung reist Schauspielerin Sonia zu ihrer älteren Schwester nach Haifa. Dort lernt sie die charismatische Mariam kennen, die im Westjordanland eine palästinensische Theaterproduktion des „Ham...