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Enter ghost / Isabella Hammad.

Hammad, Isabella, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780802162380
  • ISBN: 080216238X
  • Physical Description: pages cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2023.

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"A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. 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 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 from all over historic Palestine 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. A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad's highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite feat, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • 10 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation.

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Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport Adult On Order (Text) acq1337986 Acquisitions On order -
Brookfield Library F/HAMMAD (Text) 34029148558629 Adult Fiction Available -
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village F Ham (Text) 33180148099147 Adult Fiction - First Floor Available -
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe FIC HAMMAD,I (Text) 34026152484395 Adult Fiction Available -
Milford Public Library HAMMAD Isabella (Text) 34013155192522 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/01/2024
New Milford Public Library F HAMMA (Text) 34021154087890 Adult Fiction Available -
Ridgefield Library F HAMMAD (Text) 34010154759517 Adult Fiction Available -
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury FIC HAMMAD (Text) 37538154887588 Adult New Fiction Available -
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