num_pages: 710
description: As the First World War shatters families destroys friendships and kills lovers a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous Paris. He discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong.Isabella Hammad delicately unpicks the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era  the Palestinian struggle for independence from the British Mandate the strife of the early twentieth century and the looming shadow of the Second World War. An intensely human story amidst a global conflict The Parisian is historical fiction with a remarkable contemporary voice.
language: None
title: The Parisian
publisher: Vintage Digital