{"product_id":"against-the-loveless-world-winner-of-the-palestine-book-award","title":"Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALIN\u003cbr\u003e'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIF\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Palestine Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things, and had many names. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a second class citizen love is a kind of desperation; she learned, above all else, to survive. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was a girl who went to Palestine in the wrong shoes, and without looking for it found what she had always lacked in the basement of a battered beauty parlour: purpose, politics, friends. She found a dark-eyed man called Bilal, who taught her to resist; who tried to save her when it was already too late. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNahr sits in the Cube, and tells her story to Bilal. Bilal, who isn't there; Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 384 pages | Published August 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63867437449565,"sku":"9781526618818","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/against-the-loveless-world-winner-of-the-palestine-book-award","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}