Isabella Hammad
Autor de The Parisian
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: RCW Literary Agency
Obras de Isabella Hammad
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1991
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
Palestine - País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 494
- Popularidad
- #50,038
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 38
- Idiomas
- 5
When Jeanette turns away from him to support her father Midhat knows that he can no longer stay in the house and, abandoning his medical studies, he leaves for Paris ....
The war ends, Midhat returns to Nablus, the Ottoman Empire collapses and change is in the air in the city of Nablus. And the book follows Midhat's life as the world changes around him, almost until the start of Second World War. But his time in Paris and his early love for Jeanette continue to influence his life in unexpected ways ...
This is a well written book, but there are major faults with its construction in my opinion. There seem to be three novels competing for attention in [The Parisian] whose individual themes do not necessarily sit well together:
- a memoir of Midhat Kamala's life
- a history of Palestine and its politics between 1914 and 1936. This requires bringing in more characters and events as Midhat himself is somewhat apolitical.
- a social history of the inhabitants of Nablus and the different peoples making up its population
Any one of those themes could have worked well, but they in combination there are just too many characters, most of whom are not well defined, and too many unconnected events. A book that needed a really good editor.… (más)