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The Lanterns of the King of Galilee
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- Book Synopsis
- An epic novel of historic Palestine from the award-winning author of Time of White Horses "His writing, deeply rooted in themes of exile, identity, and resistance, has been translated into multiple languages, earning him international acclaim as one of the most important voices in contemporary Arab literature."-World Literature Today In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Dahir 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.
- About The Author
- Ibrahim Nasrallah was born to Palestinian parents in Jordan in 1954, and grew up in a refugee camp there. He has won the Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, the Palestine Prize, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has published 16 poetry collections, 26 novels, an autobiography, and 2 books on film criticism, and more than 50 translations of his books have been published across the world, including in English, Italian, Danish, Turkish, Spanish, Persian, and other languages. His novels include Time of White Horses, Lanterns of the King of Galilee, and Gaza Weddings. Nancy Roberts is an award-winning translator of a number of Arabic novels including Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour, for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Translation, and Ibrahim Nasrallah's Gaza Weddings, for which she was awarded the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. Her most recent translation is Ibrahim al-Koni's The Night Will Have Its Say. She lives in Wheaton, Illinois.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9789774166662
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press, (09 February 2015)
- Number of Pages
- 560
- Weight
- 846 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 230 x 152.4 x 43 mm
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