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After years away from her family’s homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn’t been back since the second intifada and the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed and made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her burgeoning acting career and now dissolute marriage.
On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new. Once at Haneen’s, Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank.
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**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.
After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.
When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men - yet as opening night draws closer, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life she once knew starts to give way to the exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.
'I absolutely loved it'
MONICA ALI
'Remarkable? My heart will never be the same'
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
'A vital storyteller'
ALI SMITH
'A novel to savour'
SUNDAY TIMES
'Captivating?deeply moving'
HARPER'S BAZAAR
'Powerful? Hammad is a pretty flawless writer'
THE TIMES
A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BOWKER PRIZE 2024
* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND VULTURE *
Additional information
| Weight | 236 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.9 × 2 cm |
| Book_author | Hammad, Isabella |
| Publisher | VINTAGE |
| Imprint | Vintage |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 336 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1st paperback ed |
| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
