Enter Ghost

**WINNER OF THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2024**<BR>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**<BR>Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.<BR><BR>'I absolutely loved it'<BR>MONICA ALI<BR><BR>'Remarkable... My heart will never be the same' <BR>BARBARA KINGSOLVER<BR><BR>'Moving and unforgettable'<BR>SALLY ROONEY<BR><BR>After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.<BR><BR>When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men - yet as opening night draws closer, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life she once knew starts to give way to the exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.<BR><BR>'A vital storyteller'<BR>ALI SMITH<BR><BR>'A novel to savour'<BR>SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>'Spectacular'<BR>NAOMI KLEIN<BR><BR>'Captivating...deeply moving'<BR>HARPER'S BAZAAR<BR><BR>'Powerful... Hammad is a pretty flawless writer'<BR>THE TIMES<BR><BR>A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BOWKER PRIZE 2024<BR><BR>* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND VULTURE *<BR>

Montpellier, zu Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs: Als der junge Palästinenser Midhat von Bord eines Dampfers aus Alexandria geht, ist das für ihn der Aufbruch in eine strahlende Zukunft. Begierig wirft er sich in sein Medizinstudium, saugt die französische Kultur auf, verliebt sich in die emanzipierte Jeannette. Doch in den vom Krieg aufgeschreckten bürgerlichen Salons bleibt Midhat ein Fremder - und muss lernen, wie zerbrechlich alles ist: aus Freunden werden Feinde, aus Liebe wird Verrat. Er flüchtet sich in das exzessive Treiben in Paris und von dort zurück in die strenge väterliche Obhut nach Palästina. Aber auch aus seiner Heimat ist im Kampf um Unabhängigkeit mittlerweile ein Pulverfass geworden...Virtuos erzählt Isabella Hammad vom Leben eines Grenzgängers und Wurzellosen. Der Roman einer Liebe zwischen den Kulturen und das Epos einer Zeitenwende - von klassischer Brillanz und unerhörter Aktualität.

'A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith<BR><BR>**WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020**<BR><BR>Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong. <BR><BR>Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century, and the looming shadow of the Second World War. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction.<BR><BR>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020*<BR>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019*

'A book that calls us to witness our place in history' Sally Rooney<BR><BR>An urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost.<BR><BR>Award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before 7 October 2023. The text of Hammad's seminal speech and her afterword written in the early weeks of 2024 together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what feels like a turning point in the narrative of human history.<BR><BR>Moving and erudite, Recognising the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis in which Hammad sheds true light on the Palestinian struggle for freedom.<BR><BR>'Hammad shows us how the Palestinian struggle is the story of humanity itself, and asks us not to look away but to see ourselves' MAX PORTER<BR><BR>'A reminder of the radical potential of reading and the possibility of change' OLIVIA SUDJIC<BR><BR>'Extraordinary and amazingly erudite' RASHID KHALIDI

Olaganüstü bir kitap hassas, ölcülü, son derece zekice, dengeli vegercekten cok güzel, Isabella Hammad muhtesem bir yetenek ve kitabiise bir mucize. -Zadie SmithI. Dünya Savasi aileleri, dostluklari ve asklari paramparca ederken, gencbir Filistinli kendini bulmak icin yola cikar.Midhat Kamal, Ortadogunun degisen politikalarindan Montpellierdekiyemek masalarina ve coskulu Parise kadar farkli dünyalarda dolasir.Bu sürecte kesfettigi ise her seyin kirilgan oldugudur ask kayba,dostlar düsmana dönüsür ve herkes aitolacagi bir yer arar.Flaubert ve Stendhaldaki gercekcilik gelenegini sürdürüyor - olanhersey hayali gibi degil de bir yazginin ürünü gibi hissediliyor.-Zadie Smith