Against the Loveless World
A Novel
New York, NY : Washington Square Press/Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021, ©2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First Washington Square Press/Atria books paperback edition.
Description: xxii, 366 pages ; 21 cm
"A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family 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."-- Description from Goodreads. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109210710/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52761023-against-the-loveless-world
Subjects:
Prisoners, Palestinian Arab -- Israel -- Fiction.
Radicals -- Middle East -- Fiction.
Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction.
Women, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Solitary confinement -- Fiction.
Palestine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Fiction.
Prisoners, Palestinian Arab -- Israel -- Fiction.
Radicals -- Middle East -- Fiction.
Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction.
Women, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Solitary confinement -- Fiction.
Palestine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781982137045
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Abulhawa | Main (Downtown) | Fiction | Out (Due: 5/29/2024) |
F Abulhawa | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
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Includes Book Club Favorites reader's guide [6 unnumbered pages at the end of the book] and brief glossary of Arabic/Palestinian terms.
Palestine Book Awards Winner, 2020
Palestine Book Awards Winner, 2020