Susan Abulhawa
Forfatter af Morgen i Jenin : roman
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Image credit: Susan Abulhawa at the Oslo Book Festival by Wikipedia user Decltype
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Will the Flower Slip Through the Asphalt? Writers Respond to Capitalist Climate Change (2017) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
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- Andre navne
- سوزان أبوالهوى
- Fødselsdato
- 1970
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
Palestine (birth) - Fødested
- Palestine
- Bopæl
- Kuwait
Jordan
East Jerusalem
Pennsylvania, USA - Uddannelse
- University of South Carolina
- Erhverv
- biomedical scientist
novelist
journalist
poet
essayist
activist - Organisationer
- Playgrounds For Palestine (founder)
Palestine Writes festival (co-chair) - Agent
- Mark Miller (Mark Miller Management)
Anjali Singh (Ayesha Pande Literary) - Oplysning om flertydighed
- VIAF:169139702
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This story gives us a human face to follow and is an interesting blend of fact and fiction. The perspective is unapologetically Palestinian and heartbreaking in it’s content of conflict, struggle and resistance. The story of her life is told by Nahr as she is being held in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison. We learn of her younger years in Kuwait, her family’s escape to Jordan and her eventual discovery of Palestine as her homeland.
I actually wanted to like this book more than I did. I have read Mornings in Jenin by this same author and absolutely loved that book. The troubles in that area of the world are on-going and have flared up again recently. I can’t ever see a resolution being found to this situation and my heart actually goes out to both sides. I suspect that was what I didn’t like in the book, it’s total one-sidedness made me uncomfortable. Although it is good to see the Palestinian side represented in literature, I now feel as if I need to read a pro-Jewish book to acquire some balance.… (mere)