Mornings in Jenin
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Beschreibung des Verlags
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppression
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
'A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure' Michael Palin
'Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior' Alice Walker
Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms – and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever.
Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and four generations of one of the most intractable conflicts of our lifetime.
Readers love Mornings in Jenin
'The most heartbreaking novel I have ever, so far, come to read' Goodreads review, 5 stars
'Within the sadness of its pages glimmers hope for reconciliation and peace' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
'The perfect example of how fiction has the power to change and inform us' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
'Tragic, powerful, haunting, enlightening, absorbing and devastating' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
'It made me weep every few pages, laugh out loud on others … A truly great read' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this richly detailed, beautiful and resonant novel examining the Palestinian and Jewish conflicts from the mid-20th century to 2002, (originally published as The Scar of David in 2006, and now republished after a new edit), Abulhawa gives the terrible conflict a human face. The tale opens with Amal staring down the barrel of a soldier's gun and moves backward to present the history that preceded that moment. In 1941 Palestine, Amal's grandparents are living on an olive farm in the village of Ein Hod. Their oldest son, Hasan, is best friends with a refugee Jewish boy, Ari Perlstein as WWII rages elsewhere. But in May 1948, the Jewish state of Israel is proclaimed, and Ein Hod, founded in 1189 C.E., "was cleared of its Palestinian children..." and the residents moved to Jenin refugee camp, where Amal is born. Through her eyes we experience the indignities and sufferings of the Palestinian refugees and also friendship and love. Abulhawa makes a great effort to empathize with all sides and tells an affecting and important story that succeeds as both literature and social commentary.
