Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of cinderblock, devoid of time. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. Many in the world call Nahr a terrorist or a whore; and just as many call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is more complicated than that.
She was named for the river her pregnant mother crossed when she fled Israel's invasion of her home in Palestine. For a time she was Almas, a girl who went to late-night parties in Kuwait with powerful men. She was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a refugee, love is a kind of desperation. She was a woman who went to Palestine in the wrong shoes, and found there what she had always lacked in a battered beauty parlour: books, friends, politics – and a fighter named Bilbal.
Nahr sits in the Cube, and tells her story, and Bilal's. Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the 1967 war, when Israel occupied what was left of Palestine. She is the author of two international bestsellers, Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 30 languages, and The Blue Between Sky and Water, as well as a poetry collection, My Voice Sought the Wind. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, and co-chair of Palestine Writes Literature Festival.
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