Salt Houses

ISBN-13: 9780099510932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str.

Alyan, Hala

Opis

'A piercingly elegant novel . Caught up in the resistance, Alia's brother disappears, while Alia and her husband move from Nablus to Kuwait City. Scattering to Beirut, Paris and Boston, Alia's children begin families of their own, once more navigating the burdens and blessings of beginning again.

Recenzje

Salt Houses is a piercingly elegant novel that registers Palestine with deep resonance for what it is: a once beloved home, known, lost, and re-imagined into life. A place where families decide between security and happiness, religion and heritage, where war is constant, yet peace is found. In the exquisite prose of a poet, Hala Alyan shows how we carry our origins in our hearts wherever we may roam, and how that history is calibrated by the places we choose to put down roots. This is a book with the power to both break and mend your heart. Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane

O autorze

Hala Alyan was born in 1986. After living in
various parts of the Middle East, she completed a doctorate in clinical psychology at NYU and is now in private practice. She has been published in Guernica and other literary journals, and is the award-winning author of three poetry collections.