The Parisian

by Isabella Hammad

Book Overview

In this masterful debut novel, twenty-seven-year old Isabella Hammad delivers a sweeping, brilliantly crafted portrait of a young man's coming-of-age alongside the embattled development of a nation.

Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. In 1914 he leaves to study medicine in France, and falls in love. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete--when he returns to Nablus to find it under British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802129439
• ISBN13: 9780802129437
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"