Ibrahim Nasrallah

Time of White Horses (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Roberts, Nancy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781617971754
• Artikelnr.: 56515007

Autorenporträt

Ibrahim Nasrallah was born to Palestinian parents in Jordan in 1954, and grew up in a refugee camp there. He has written fourteen collections of poetry and fourteen novels as well as works of literary criticism. He is also a painter and photographer. He is the author of Inside the Night (AUC Press, 2007), Time of White Horses (Hoopoe, 2016), The Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2015), and Gaza Weddings (Hoopoe, 2017.)

Nancy Roberts (translator) is an award-winning translator of a number of Arabic novels including Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Translation, and Ibrahim Nasrallah's Gaza Weddings (Hoopoe, 2017), for which she was awarded the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. Her most recent translation is Ibrahim al-Koni's The Night Will Have Its Say (Hoopoe, 2022.) She lives in Wheaton, Illinois.