Dec 5, 2023, 1:28:46 PM

🍉 Susan Abulhawa 🍉

Life caught up with me so I missed out on yesterday’s #readpalestineweek entry. But today I’m bringing two books, and fiction for a change!

Susan Abulhawa can do no wrong. ‘Against the Loveless World’ was a 2022 favourite, and here’s what I wrote about it back then:

“My favourite book of the year so far. This is a stunningly evocative tale of how political, social and spiritual oppression piloted Nahr’s, a Palestinian immigrant born and raised in Kuwait, life trajectory.

Narrated by a sad protagonist with an unwavering moral compass, this is about exile, prostitution and unjust incarceration; about the Palestinian plight and suffering as a refugee treated as second class citizens; about the effects of being a woman (with devastating beauty) in a cruel, misogynistic world.

I have tired of trying to write a review worthy of this incredible book. All I can say is that Susan Abulhawa is such a masterful and elegiac storyteller, this will stay with me for a long time.”

I still have fond memories of Nahr, a fictional character, and that’s why I’m convinced Abulhawa’s in a class of her own.

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