Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948.Through the lives of Mahmud, elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaled’s grandson Naji, we enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after another. Khaled’s remarkable white mare, Hamama, and her descendants feel and share the family’s struggles and as a siege grips Hadiya, it falls to Khaled to save his people from a descending tyranny.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 664 ● ISBN 9781649032522 ● Translator Nancy Roberts ● Publisher The American University in Cairo Press ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8302814 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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