{"product_id":"9781526618818","title":"Against the Loveless World : Winner of the Palestine Book Award - susan abulhawa","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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":"susan abulhawa","offers":[{"title":"384 pages \/ 05\/08\/2021 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56968276083063,"sku":"9781526618818","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781526618818.jpg?v=1780937386","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781526618818","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}