The Parisian

Resumen del libro

'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith'The Parisian is a gripping historical novel, a poignant romance, and a revelatory family epoch. Above all, it is a generous gift. There is a kind of joy that can hold not only pleasure, but struggle, and even sadness.

This novel tells that kind of joyful story, and evokes that kind of joy in the reader' Jonathan Safran FoerMidhat 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. Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled 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.

Told in rich and sumptuous detail, The Parisian asks profound questions about cultural identity, politics, love, and how we retain our humanity in a deeply conflicted world. *AN OBSERVER HOTLY TIPPED DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2019*

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Isabella Hammadx{0026}lt;/strong nació en Londres en 1992 y estudió en Oxford, Harvard y la Universidad de Nueva York. En 2013 obtuvo una beca para escritores de la Universidad de Cambridge. En 2016-2017 fue escritora residente de la Axinn Foundation de la Universidad de Nueva York. Ha publicado cuentos y comentarios en x{0026}lt;em Conjunctionsx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em The Paris Reviewx{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/em . En 2019 publicó x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El parisinox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , novela que obtuvo varios galardones literarios. En 2023 fue nombrada por x{0026}lt;em Grantax{0026}lt;/em como una de las mejores novelistas jóvenes de Gran Bretaña. Actualmente es profesora agregada del Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination de París. x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Entra el fantasmax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong es su segunda novela.x{0026}lt;/p