{"product_id":"9781526618818","title":"Against the Loveless World : Winner of the Palestine Book Award","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Abulhawa, Susan \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/08\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781526618818,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO'A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL'Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALIN'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIFWinner of the Palestine Book AwardNahr 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39449589973036,"sku":"9781526618818","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781526618818.jpg?v=1759661520","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9781526618818","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}