Mornings in Jenin - Paperback

by Susan Abulhawa (Author)

With more than a million copies sold worldwide, a modern classic of Palestinian literature from "a major writer of our time" (Alice Walker).

"Timeless in its truth."-Fattima Bhutto
"Powerful and passionate."-Michael Palin
"A novel to savor."-Maureen Corrigan
"Relevant, powerful, emotional and vivid."-Bidisha Mamat

Mornings in Jenin is a heart-wrenching multi-generational account of one family's struggle and survival through the decades before and after Zionist colonization and theft of Palestine. Carrying us from Ein Hod to Jenin to Jerusalem, to Lebanon, then to the anonymity of America and finally back to Occupied Palestine, it is a novel of vital importance, "affirming all that is enduring and valuable in the undefeated human spirit" (Hanan Ashrawi).

"Affects me emotionally in a way only great novels can."-Henning Mankell
"Achingly beautiful."-Saleem Haddad
"When we grow numb to horror, when our minds slam shut in shock and denial, sometimes a story can slip to reawaken our humanity. This is that story, never more relevant."-Laline Paull

Author Biography

susan abulhawa was born to Palestinian refugees of the 1967 war. Mornings in Jenin, her first novel, became an international sensation when it was first published in 2010, with rights sold in thirty languages.