Mornings in Jenin Mornings in Jenin

Mornings in Jenin

A Novel

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Publisher Description

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that does for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.



Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century of violent history. Amidst the loss and fear, hatred and pain, as their tents are replaced by more forebodingly permanent cinderblock huts, there is always the waiting, waiting to return to a lost home.



The novel's voice is that of Amal, the granddaughter of the old village patriarch, a bright, sensitive girl who makes it out of the camps, only to return years later, to marry and bear a child. Through her eyes, with her evolving vision, we get the story of her brothers, one who is kidnapped to be raised Jewish, one who will end with bombs strapped to his middle. But of the many interwoven stories, stretching backward and forward in time, none is more important than Amal's own. Her story is one of love and loss, of childhood and marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has.



Set against one of the twentieth century's most intractable political conflicts, Mornings in Jenin is a deeply human novel - a novel of history, identity, friendship, love, terrorism, surrender, courage, and hope. Its power forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining conflicts of our lifetimes.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
July 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury USA
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
1.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Niehigh ,

A must read

Everyone should read this book to understand the decades of oppression Palestinians have been leaving through. Heartbreakingly important.

hdienfjaiaknskakaka ,

emotionally driven

an incredible and moving read. i felt many emotions throughout the reading; happy, sad, angry, numb, grief.

please give it a chance, and put aside any biases you may have. you will learn so much.

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