Enter ghost / Isabella Hammad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammad, Isabella, author.

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Theater--Production and direction--West Bank--Fiction.

Theater.

West Bank--Social conditions--Fiction.

West Bank.

Social conditions.

Theater--Production and direction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

323 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Jonathan Cape, 2023.

Summary:

After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn't been back since the second intifada and the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed and made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her burgeoning acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new. Once at Haneen's, Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing Gertrude's lines in classical Arabic and spending more time in Ramallah than in Haifa with a dedicated group of men who, in spite of competing egos and priorities, each want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many invasive and violent obstacles stand before a troupe of Palestinian actors. Amidst it all, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781787334076

1787334074

9781787334069

1787334066

OCLC:

1374178437