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Enter Ghost is a luminous and deeply moving novel about art, family, and the realities of life under occupation. The story follows Sonia Nasir, a British-Palestinian actress living in London. Reeling from a failed marriage and a disastrous affair with a director, she seeks refuge in Haifa with her older sister, Haneen, an academic.
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ISBN: 9781529919998
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 12.9 × 2.1 × 19.9 cm
Though Sonia has always felt disconnected from her heritage, she is drawn into a local production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet being staged in the West Bank. Rehearsing in classical Arabic with a group of intense, passionate actors, Sonia navigates checkpoints, checkpoints, and the psychological barriers of the “Ghost” of her past. The novel is a masterful exploration of how theater can become a form of resistance and how a person can find themselves by stepping into someone else’s skin.
Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. She has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and has been awarded the RSL Encore Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Palestine Book Award and a Betty Trask Award. She has received fellows hips from MacDowell and the Lannan Foundation. In 2023, she was included as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
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