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  • Written by: Susan Abulhawa
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  • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Against the Loveless World

Written by: Susan Abulhawa
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Publisher's Summary

Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award.

Bloomsbury presents Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa, read by Susan Abulhawa.  

Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them.    

The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things and had many names.    

She was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a second class citizen love is a kind of desperation; she learned, above all else, to survive.    

She was a girl who went to Palestine in the wrong shoes and without looking for it found what she had always lacked in the basement of a battered beauty parlour: purpose, politics, friends. She found a dark-eyed man called Bilal, who taught her to resist; who tried to save her when it was already too late.    

Nahr sits in the Cube and tells her story to Bilal. Bilal, who isn’t there; Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.
©2020 Susan Abulhawa (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Literary Fiction Political
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Critic Reviews

"A thrilling, defiant novel." (Fatima Bhutto)

"A masterpiece." (Marc Lamont Hill)

''Wonderful.... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places." (Michael Palin)

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Heartbreaking yet beautiful

So profoynf and beautifully written that I cried reading the acknowledgements as well 😭😭

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Wonderful ❤️

Absolutely loved it , must read for everyone , perhaps one of the best books of 2020

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