Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781526618818
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
'A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO

'A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL

'Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALIN


'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIF



Winner of the Palestine Book Award






Nahr has been confined to the Cube- nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them.




The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things, and had many names.




She was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a second class citizen love is a kind of desperation; she learned, above all else, to survive.




She was a girl who went to Palestine in the wrong shoes, and without looking for it found what she had always lacked in the basement of a battered beauty parlour- purpose, politics, friends. She found a dark-eyed man called Bilal, who taught her to resist; who tried to save her when it was already too late.




Nahr sits in the Cube, and tells her story to Bilal. Bilal, who isn't there; Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.