{"product_id":"dreams-of-ayn-ara-paperback","title":"Dreams of Ayn Ara - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Abou Ghazal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatharine Halls\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dizzying, immersive portrait of a never-ending Nakba, as lived and relived by one displaced Palestinian family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Stockholm, Zein al-Abidin shivers, far from the warmth of revolt that simmered all those years ago in Shatila. In Paris, his son Nidal toils in solitude, ignoring his parents' phone calls. Grandmother Nijmeh struggles to distinguish reality from dreams, and it's left to fearless, level-headed matriarch Zahra to try to keep the family together. But Salwa, with guidance from beyond the grave, digs backward in time through Facebook and discovers an unlikely channel to the one place in the world she can't go: Ayn Ara, the Abu Sukkar family's ancestral home in Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Abou Ghazal's English-language debut traces the worldwide, timewide scatter of the Abu Sukkar family in the wake of the 1948 Nakba and its displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. At every turn, their hopes of an ordinary existence are brutally thwarted by false friends, renewed violence, and memories so vivid they refuse to be consigned to the past. Building to a surreal crescendo, \u003ci\u003eDreams of Ayn Ara\u003c\/i\u003e maps the cosmic upheaval in which Zionist settler colonialism denies Palestinians not only a homeland, but a future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSara Abou Ghazal \u003c\/strong\u003eis a Palestinian writer who grew up in Beirut and now lives in Belgium. \u003cem\u003eDreams of Ayn Ara \u003c\/em\u003eis her first novel and English-language debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatharine Halls \u003c\/strong\u003eis a translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Her work has been awarded the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, named finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and the EBRD Literature Prize, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction, and longlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46048951468076,"sku":"9781558613645","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/fyB8fAN5XY9781558613645.webp?v=1787767208","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/dreams-of-ayn-ara-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}