The release date for the English version of 'Against the Loveless World' by
Susan Abulhawa is Aug 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
For fans of international literary bestsellers like Washington Black, My Sister, The Serial Killer, and Her Body and Other Parties, a sweeping and poetic novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she gradually becomes radicalised while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East.
Nahr spends her days thinking back on the shocking events that led to her being imprisoned in a nation she hardly knows while she sits in solitary confinement. She was the daughter of Palestinian refugees born in Kuwait in the 1970s, and her dreams included marrying the right guy, starting a family, and maybe starting her own beauty parlour. Instead, after a short marriage, the man she believes she loves deserts her, her family faces financial ruin, she is pushed into prostitution, and she becomes a refugee due to the US invasion of Iraq, much as her parents had been. She travels via another makeshift residence in Jordan before landing in Palestine, where she eventually finds a place to call home, falls in love, and experiences the unfolding of her destiny under Israeli rule.