EAN: 9781408865125

THE BLUE BETWEEN SKY AND WATER - SUSAN ABULHAWA...

From the author of the international bestseller Mornings in Jenin comes a powerful  passionate
story of a family separated by conflict  and the tragedy they endure 'The story Susan Abulhawa
tells in this marvellous novel is hard to bear but impossible to ignore ... precise  courageous
and dazzling' Teju Cole 'Gripping and deeply moving . Suffering and resilience are difficult
things to witness  but this powerful  politically engaged novel does so with a transformative
literary grace.' Independent on Sunday It is 1947  and Beit Daras  a rural Palestinian village
is home to the Baraka family - oldest daughter Nazmiyeh  brother Mamdouh  beautiful  dreamy
Mariam and their widowed mother. When Israeli forces descend  sending the village up in flames
the family must take the long road to Gaza  in a walk that will test them to their limits.
Sixty years later  in America  Mamdouh's granddaughter Nur falls in love with a doctor.
Following him to his work in Gaza  she meets Alwan  who will help Nur discover the ties of
kinship that transcend distance - and even death. Told with raw humanity  The Blue Between Sky
and Water is a lyrical  devastatingly beautiful story of a family's relocation  separation 
survival and love.

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