Reviews
'An original and vivid voice. Full of energy, this is a new and welcome take on the Palestinian story', 'This brave, important new writer draws us right into the beating heart of contemporary Arab life in all its vigour and complexity', Making sense of Palestine and its relentlessly repressed people is never going to be easy, but Dabbagh has crafted a wonderfully perceptive and gripping novel surrounding three siblings and their Palestinian roots, A very successful debut novel...The writing is both literary and accessible, fast-paced, passionate, exuberant and heart-lurching, An original and vivid voice. Full of energy, this is a new and welcome take on the Palestinian story., This brave, important new writer draws us right into the beating heart of contemporary Arab life in all its vigour and complexity, "An original and vivid voice. Full of energy, this is a new and welcome take on the Palestinian story." -- Ahdaf Soueif "Making sense of Palestine and its relentlessly repressed people is never going to be easy, but Dabbagh has crafted a wonderfully perceptive and gripping novel surrounding three siblings and their Palestinian roots" -- The Daily Mirror, UK "A very successful debut novel...The writing is both literary and accessible, fast-paced, passionate, exuberant and heart-lurching" -- The Guardian, UK "important and captivating debut novel" -- Publisher's Weekly
