Parisian

'A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith

As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself. Midhat Kamal navigates his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous Paris. He discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong.

Isabella Hammad delicately untangles the politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century and the looming shadow of the Second World War. An intensely human story amidst a global conflict, The Parisian is historical fiction with a remarkable contemporary voice.

„O experienta de lectura sublima: delicata, retinuta, extrem de inteligenta, neobisnuit de echilibrata si cu adevarat frumoasa” Zadie Smith Pe masura ce primul razboi mondial spulbera familiile, distruge prietenii si ucide iubitorii, un tanar visator palestinian isi propune sa se regaseasca. Midhat Kamal isi croieste drum printr-o lume fracturata, de la politica in schimbare a Orientului Mijlociu la mesele din Montpellier si un Paris nou tumultuos.