The Parisian

Isabella Hammad

eBook - 2019

WINNER OF THE SUE KAUFMAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARDWINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARDNational Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree"Superb . . . The Parisian makes history, and its actors, live once again."—Boston GlobeA masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to study medicine in France, and falls in love. When Mi...dhat returns to Nablus to find it under British rule, and the entire region erupting with nationalist fervor, he must find a way to cope with his... more