5/29/2023 0 Comments Loveless book review![]() ![]() We’re pushed to understand that the same fate awaits Palestine, which is, after all, the novel’s greatest affirmation of love. In time, though, the reader comes to understand that the juxtaposition of beauty and suffering is essential to the novel’s geography - both the tiny cell from which Nahr narrates her life and the occupied country surrounding it. Abulhawa delivers these cadences in prose that at first seems too beautiful for what it describes. ![]() Abulhawa provides a dynamic and challenging exploration of political violence, one that spans multiple geographies and periods of time. We are given the opportunity to read Nahr’s life in a language foreign to American mythologies of progress and civilization. I don’t view it strictly as a novel about Palestine it’s more like a Palestinian statement of purpose. It relies almost completely on the strength of its narrator, but she is up to the challenge, guiding readers through histories fraught with tragedy and dispossession. The language alternates between exhilarating and contemplative. Such is the burden and blessing of the Palestinian novelist. Its poetics can be harsh and its heartbreaks can be soothing. It’s a meditation on love and alienation in a setting that is by nature political, or imbued in multilingual politics, facing the West in audacious vulnerability. Despite its unmistakable investment in (and affinity for) Palestine, Against the Loveless World isn’t what I would call a political novel. ![]()
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