The lanterns of the King of Galilee : a novel of 18th-century Palestine / Ibrahim Nasrallah ; translated by Nancy Roberts ; designed by Shehab Abdallah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naṣr Allāh, Ibrāhīm, author.

Contributor:

Roberts, Nancy, translator.

Abdallah, Shehab, designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--Fiction.

Palestine.

Galilee (Israel)--Fiction.

Galilee (Israel).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (566 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014.

Summary:

In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must challenge the rule of the greatest power in the world at the time-the Ottoman Empire-while translating the ideals of human dignity, justice, and religious tolerance into concrete daily realities. In this compelling story of love and loss, victory and defeat, loyalty and betrayal, award-winning poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah, author of the Arabic Booker shortlisted Time of White Horses, once again brings Palestinian history alive with a set of characters and events both real and imagined to capture the essence of a rich and dramatic epoch in the turbulent annals of a land that has been fought over for millennia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-61797-646-6