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�A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful� Zadie Smith
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.
Midhat Kamal navigates his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous Paris. He discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong.
Isabella Hammad delicately untangles the politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era � the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century and the looming shadow of the Second World War. An intensely human story amidst a global conflict, The Parisian is historical fiction with a remarkable contemporary voice.
What We're Reading: "A fictionalized version of Hammad's grandfather's life in Nablus, Palestine, in the early 1900's, the title comes from the nickname he got after going to France to study medicine and to party in Paris. This context is seldom explored in a literary way. Her writing has been compared to Stendhal. Avo and I liked it, it's unusual in that the setting is seldom described and the characters are strong." - Lynn and Avo, owners of both ABCs, June 2019.
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