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Twin sisters Randa and Lamis live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Inseparable to the point that even their mother cannot tell them apart, they grow up surrounded by the random carnage that characterizes life under occupation.
Randa, who wants to be a journalist, writes to record the devastation around her, taking pictures of martyred children. Meanwhile, their beloved neighbor Amna quietly converses with all those she has lost, as she plans the wedding of Lamis and her son Saleh.
With their menfolk almost entirely absent, it is the women who take center stage in this poignant novel of resilience, determination, and living against the odds.
PRAISE FOR IBRAHIM NASRALLAH:
"Nasrallah's intensely eloquent voice gives Western audiences an insight into the lives of the marginalized without rattling off numbers."—Tam Hussein, New Statesman
"[Nasrallah] conveys a powerful sense of the textures of place, time and custom."—Raymond Deane, The Electronic Intifada
"His writing, deeply rooted in themes of exile, identity, and resistance, has been translated into multiple languages, earning him international acclaim as one of the most important voices in contemporary Arab literature."—World Literature Today
"Written in a shimmering and sensitive style."—Salma Khadra Jayyusi
“Nasrallah’s literary works span universal issues and themes woven into the Palestinian struggle that allow readers to connect deeply with Palestine outside of a colonial framework.” She went on to say that his work “is now more important than ever considering the plight of Palestinians. It is time the world sees the true Palestine, and Nasrallah’s work can offer this perspective.”—Shereen Malherbe
Ibrahim Nasrallah was born to Palestinian parents in Jordan in 1954, and grew up in a refugee camp there. He has won the Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, the Palestine Prize, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has published 16 poetry collections, 26 novels, an autobiography, and 2 books on film criticism, and more than 50 translations of his books have been published across the world, including in English, Italian, Danish, Turkish, Spanish, Persian, and other languages. His novels include Time of White Horses, Lanterns of the King of Galilee, and Gaza Weddings.
Nancy Roberts is an award-winning translator of a number of Arabic novels including Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour, for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Translation, and Ibrahim Nasrallah's Gaza Weddings, 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. She lives in Wheaton, Illinois.