Against the Loveless World

Name: Against the Loveless World
ISBN: 9781982137038

Susan Abulhawa

2019·384 pages

Historical Fiction

class struggle dual timeline fish out of water freedom gender and sexuality gritty

“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us.”
— Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

“beautiful...urgent”
— The New York Times

“richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant”
— Publishers Weekly

Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East. As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.

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Against the Loveless World

Susan Abulhawa

Year

2019

Pages

384

Historical Fiction

Praise

“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us.”
— Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author