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Salt Houses
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‘A piercingly elegant novel . . . with the power to both break and mend your heart.’ Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane’Epic in scope and uniquely relevant in its concern for displacement. Particularly well-suited for our times, then.’ RedWhere do you go when you can’t go home? On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they soon come to pass in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Caught up in the resistance, Alia’s brother disappears, while Alia and her husband move from Nablus to Kuwait City. Reluctantly they build a life, torn between needing to remember and learning to forget.When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, Alia and her family yet again lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it. Scattering to Beirut, Paris and Boston, Alia’s children begin families of their own, once more navigating the burdens and blessings of beginning again.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.228 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.1 × 13 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 320 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2018-3-15 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099510936 |
| About The Author | Hala Alyan was born in 1986. After living invarious 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. |
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. |
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| Other text | A fiercely-told story of a family fleeing and rebuilding their lives. |
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