| Description |
463 pages (large print) ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
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 Pennsylvania. In the first commercial literary work ever to inhabit a Palestinian voice, Susan Abulhawa's is a story of love and loss, of childhood, marriage and parenthood. Richly told and and full of humanity, Mornings in Jenin forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetime. |
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Subtitle from cover. |
| Subject |
Palestinian Arabs -- Fiction.
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Fiction.
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Jenin -- Fiction.
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Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction.
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Palestine -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Fiction.
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Palestine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Large type books.
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| ISBN |
9781602857360 (library binding : alk. paper) |
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1602857369 (library binding : alk. paper) |
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