Novel by Isabella Hammad follows Sonia, a Palestinian British actress who returns to the West Bank to join a theater company staging Hamlet. Through the rehearsal process and Sonia's reckoning with her relationship to Palestine, the novel explores art-making under occupation, diaspora identity, and Palestinian cultural and political life. A richly-layered literary novel addressing the West Bank through the lens of performance. An important resource for students of contemporary Palestinian fiction, diaspora identity, and the intersection of theater, performance, and political imagination in the context of West Bank occupation.
