Publisher's Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION
FINALIST FOR THE 2026 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
"Nasrallah's intensely eloquent voice gives Western audiences an insight into the lives of the marginalized "-New Statesman
Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948
Through the lives of Mahmud, elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaled's grandson Naji, we enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after another. Khaled's remarkable white mare, Hamama, and her descendants feel and share the family's struggles and as a siege grips Hadiya, it falls to Khaled to save his people from a descending tyranny.
