Much of the novel is quite political, getting further into the details of the international conflicts as the story progresses. Nahr has a nuanced relationship with her boss, Um Buraq, and this connection eventually leads to the next step in her journey: a move to Jordan. It’s an unexpected but interesting look at the power and wealth she was able to amass through sex work. She went from working in a hair salon and doing manicures to the world of sex work. Nahr may have been naive, but she was also strong and cool, and it wasn’t long until she got back on her feet. She dreamed of marriage, but her first relationship wasn’t what she’d expected. Nahr was an ordinary young woman in the 1980s, part of a family of Palestinian refugees living in Kuwait. She reflects on her life and what ultimately landed her in this prison. It’s told from the perspective of Nahr while she’s in solitary confinement in “The Cube” in Israel. ReviewĪgainst the Loveless World is a stunning book. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon.
Against the Loveless World by Susan AbulhawaĪ sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East, for readers of international literary bestsellers including Washington Black, My Sister, The Serial Killer, and Her Body and Other Parties.Īs Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Now that I’m focusing on Arab American Heritage Month, this was the first book I wanted to dive into.
It was one of my most anticipated new releases last summer, and though I bought it several months ago, I was waiting for the right time. In the case of Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa, it was both that enraptured me before I’d even read its summary. Sometimes a book’s title is enough to capture your attention and make you need to read it.
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