Against the loveless world, Susan Abulhawa
Type
Label
Against the loveless world, Susan Abulhawa
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Against the loveless world
Responsibility statement
Susan Abulhawa
Summary
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. Nahr's subversive humour and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties
Target audience
adult
Creator
Subject
- Women, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction
- Solitary confinement -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Arab-Israeli conflict -- Fiction
- Palestine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Prisoners, Palestinian Arab -- Israel -- Fiction
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction
- Women political prisoners -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Abandoned wives -- Fiction
Content
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject13
- Women, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction
- Solitary confinement -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Arab-Israeli conflict -- Fiction
- Palestine -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Prisoners, Palestinian Arab -- Israel -- Fiction
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Fiction
- Women political prisoners -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Abandoned wives -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1