{"product_id":"against-the-loveless-world","title":"Against the Loveless World","description":"\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003eShortlisted for Palestine Book Award: Winner of the Palestine Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003eBy: Susan Abulhawa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA furious and beautiful book from an internationally bestselling author of formidable standing - on sex and power, persecution and resistance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALIN\u003cbr\u003e'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIF\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Palestine Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNahr has been confined to the Cube- nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things, and had many names.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a second class citizen love is a kind of desperation; she learned, above all else, to survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was a girl who went to Palestine in the wrong shoes, and without looking for it found what she had always lacked in the basement of a battered beauty parlour- purpose, politics, friends. She found a dark-eyed man called Bilal, who taught her to resist; who tried to save her when it was already too late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNahr sits in the Cube, and tells her story to Bilal. Bilal, who isn't there; Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palestine Center for Peace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43137201176674,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/0506\/files\/71wPLif3crL._SY466.jpg?v=1784683815","url":"https:\/\/palestinecenterforpeace.com.au\/products\/against-the-loveless-world","provider":"Palestine Center for Peace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}