CORNERSTONE - 9781529919998
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**
**LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024**
Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.
''''I absolutely loved it''''
MONICA ALI
‘A vital storyteller’
ALI SMITH
After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.
When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men – yet as opening night draws closer, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life she once knew starts to give way to the exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.
‘A novel to savour’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Captivating…deeply moving’
HARPER’S BAZAAR
‘Powerful… Hammad is a pretty flawless writer’
THE TIMES
A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST
* A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND VULTURE *
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Escrito por Isabella Hammad
Isabella Hammad nació en Londres en 1992 y estudió en Oxford, Harvard y la Universidad de Nueva York, ciudad donde pasa parte del tiempo en la actualidad. En 2013 obtuvo una beca para escritores de la Universidad de Cambridge. En 2016-2017 fue escritora residente de la Axinn Foundation de la Universidad de Nueva York. Ha publicado cuentos y otros textos en las revistas Conjunctions y The Paris Review, y ha sido galardonada con el Plimpton Prize for Fiction 2018. En Anagrama ha publicado El parisino, su primera novela, inspirada en su bisabuelo paterno, y Reconocer al extraño.
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