An epic novel by Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour following Ruqayya, a girl from the Palestinian village of Tantoura who survives the 1948 Nakba and the massacre of her village. Her story follows Palestinian displacement through Syria, Lebanon, and the Gulf across several decades. Drawing on the documented history of the Tantoura massacre, the novel offers a sweeping literary account of Palestinian loss, memory, and survival across generations. Valuable for students and researchers of Arabic and Palestinian fiction, and for anyone studying how the Nakba is represented in the form of the multigenerational novel, particularly through the documented history of the Tantoura massacre. Translated from its original Arabic by Kay Heikkinen.
