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The Parisian, or, al-Barisi : a novel / Isabella Hammad.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF HAMM	Adult Fiction		Padstow .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781911214434 (paperback)
Name	Hammad, Isabella author.
Title	The Parisian, or, al-Barisi : a novel / Isabella Hammad.
Published	London : Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage, 2019.
Published	©2019
Description	550 pages ; 24 cm
Summary	Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to study medicine in France, and falls in love. When Midhat returns to Nablus to find it under British rule, and the entire region erupting with nationalist fervor, he must find a way to cope with his conflicting loyalties and the expectations of his community. The story of Midhat's life develops alongside the idea of a nation, as he and those close to him confront what it means to strive for independence in a world that seems on the verge of falling apart.
Subjects	Autonomy and independence movements -- Fiction
	Middle East -- History -- Fiction
	Nablus -- Fiction
	Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genre	Bildungsromans
Genre	Historical fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Autonomy and independence movements -- Fiction . Bildungsromans . Historical fiction . Middle East -- History -- Fiction . Nablus -- Fiction . Paris (France) -- Fiction . Authors: Hammad, Isabella .