Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

Mornings in Jenin by Susan AbulhawaA heart wrenching, powerfully written novel: a Kite Runner for Palestine 'One of the most thought provoking books I've read written with passion and honesty, and poetry' Daily Mail 'The writer's pain and the beauty of her prose are very real' Telegraph Palestine, 1948. Half a million Palestinians are forced from their homes. A mother clutches her six month old son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, her son is

A book about intense physical and personal experience

and yet are gifted with unusually acute artistic or mathematical talents

gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair

an inspiration - always rigorous

love and sex

For any Sontag fan

humankind could not survive

To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the firststep towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues

but repressed for centuries by a value system that trivializes emotional truth

At home full-time with her two-year-old son

was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture