Novel by Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, an intellectual born in Bethlehem and raised in Jerusalem, who became a refugee in Baghdad after 1948. Set in Iraq in the 1950s and following exiled Palestinian intellectuals navigating displacement, desire, and political commitment. One of the earliest Palestinian novels available in English, addressing the experience of educated Palestinian refugees in the Arab world after the Nakba and the persistent pull of a lost homeland. Recommended for students and researchers of Arab literature and Palestinian fiction, social realism in Arab literature, and for historians studying Palestinian refugee intellectual life in Arab cities in the post-Nakba decades.
