Susan Abulhawa
Auteur de Les matins de Jénine
A propos de l'auteur
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Crédit image: Susan Abulhawa at the Oslo Book Festival by Wikipedia user Decltype
Œuvres de Susan Abulhawa
Nahrs siste dans 2 exemplaires
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- سوزان أبوالهوى
- Date de naissance
- 1970
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
Palestine (birth) - Lieu de naissance
- Palestine
- Lieux de résidence
- Kuwait
Jordan
East Jerusalem
Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- University of South Carolina
- Professions
- biomedical scientist
novelist
journalist
poet
essayist
activist - Organisations
- Playgrounds For Palestine (founder)
Palestine Writes festival (co-chair) - Agent
- Mark Miller (Mark Miller Management)
Anjali Singh (Ayesha Pande Literary) - Notice de désambigüisation
- VIAF:169139702
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 1,566
- Popularité
- #16,474
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 89
- ISBN
- 109
- Langues
- 16
- Favoris
- 3
This award-winning book highlights the suffering of the Palestinian people throughout the Israeli occupation and other conflicts. The author was born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents.
The main character is Nahr, a woman born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents in the 1970s. After the US invasion of Iraq, she flees to Jordan then Palestine, her ancestral homeland. The story shifts between the present, with Nahr being held in solitary confinement in The Cube in Israel, as a political prisoner for acts of terrorism, and the past that has led up to this point.
Nahr’s story is one of heartache and struggle but also great bravery. She begins with a simple dream of marriage and owning her own salon, which rapidly evaporates when her husband abandons her and she is forced into a life of prostitution. In Palestine she is faced with the suffering of her people at the hands of the Israelis and the destruction of their olive groves and traditional way of life. She falls in love and becomes involved in the resistance.
There are several scenes involving sexual abuse and this book is not an easy read. It is a dark story about the traumas facing this woman, representative of the suffering of so many Palestinian women. It is about the suffering of women at the hands of men, and the suffering of the Palestinian people as a whole. It was very reminiscent of a book I just read, Woman At Point Zero, set in Egypt. Despite the heavy subject matter, this book helps give insight into many issues facing Palestinians, it creates a picture of their home, and there are moments of beauty and humour. Best of all Nahr is a badass and I loved her snarky internal dialogue.… (plus d'informations)