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By (author) Abulhawa Susan

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A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppression

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

‘A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure’ Michael Palin

‘Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior’ Alice Walker

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Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms – and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever.

Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and four generations of one of the most intractable conflicts of our lifetime.

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Readers love Mornings in Jenin

‘The most heartbreaking novel I have ever, so far, come to read’ Goodreads review, 5 stars

‘Within the sadness of its pages glimmers hope for reconciliation and peace’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘The perfect example of how fiction has the power to change and inform us’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘Tragic, powerful, haunting, enlightening, absorbing and devastating’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘It made me weep every few pages, laugh out loud on others … A truly great read’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

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Never before have I read such a fascinating novel about Palestine and Israel. It affected me emotionally in a way only great novels can

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A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure since the state of Israel was created. Susan Abulhawa guides us through traumatic events with anger and great tenderness too, creating unforgettable images of a world in which humanity and inhumanity, selflessness and selfishness, love and hate grow so close to each other

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Abulhawa looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us, who are too often oblivious. A major writer of our time, to read Abulhawa is to begin to understand not simply the misinformation we have received for decades about what has gone on in Palestine and the Middle East, but to come to terms with our own resistance to feeling the terror of our own fear of Truth

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When we grow numb to horror, when our minds slam shut in shock and denial, sometimes a story can slip to reawaken our humanity.This is that story, never more relevant, and my heart is stronger for reading it

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One of the most thought-provoking books I”ve read … written with passion and honesty, and poetry

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A heart-shattering novel, timeless in its truth

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Abulhawa’s writing shines … Friendship, adolescence, love: ordinary events, offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live

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The writer’s pain – and the beauty of her prose – are very real

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Powerful and moving

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A powerful and sensitive narrative that encapsulates the Palestinian experience with searing honesty and moving compassion … In both its specific Palestinian content and its larger human dimension, this novel is at once a challenge to complacency and ignorance as well as an affirmation of all