Velvet by Huzama Habayeb

Velvet

Huzama Habayeb with Kay Heikkinen (Translator)

312 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction literary dark emotional tense fast-paced
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Winner of The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature A novel of enormous power and great beauty, in which a Palestinian woman raised in a refugee camp learns to sew which helps her to construct a life. Hawwa is a child of the grinding hardship of a...

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