Somewhere Home
Author: Jarrar, Nada Awar
ISBN: 9780007221943
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
This remarkable novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home.
Maysa returns to the house that was her grandparents’ when she was a child, in a village high on the slopes of Mount Lebanon. Aida, who has long since left the country of her birth, returns in search of the Palestinian refugee who was a second father to her when she was a child. And Salwa, now an old woman, recalls her life from her hospital bed, surrounded by her family but still, in some sense, far from home.
ISBN: 9780007221943
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
This remarkable novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home.
Maysa returns to the house that was her grandparents’ when she was a child, in a village high on the slopes of Mount Lebanon. Aida, who has long since left the country of her birth, returns in search of the Palestinian refugee who was a second father to her when she was a child. And Salwa, now an old woman, recalls her life from her hospital bed, surrounded by her family but still, in some sense, far from home.
