![]() ![]() Usefully for narrative purposes, the baby, renamed David, has a scar on his face "that would eventually lead him to his truth". He gives the child to his wife, a Polish Holocaust survivor. The pastoral opening crams into 40 pages a cross-faith friendship, a love story (both brothers fall for Dalia, who marries the elder son, Hasan), a death, the Zionist invasion of the village, and the theft of one of Hasan and Dalia's sons, the infant Ismael, by an Israeli soldier. ![]() ![]() The novel was partially inspired by the Ghassan Kanafani novel Return to Haifa.Ĭritical reception Reviews Īnjali Joseph of The Independent writes that "Susan Abulhawa's novel, first published in the US in 2006 but since reworked, follows the Abulheja family, Yehya and Basima and their two sons, in Ein Hod, a village in Palestine. Mornings in Jenin is the first mainstream novel in English to explore life in post-1948 Palestine. Bloomsbury Publishing reissued the novel in the United States as Mornings in Jenin (February, 2010) after slight editing. It was then translated into 27 languages. The novel was translated into French and published as Les Matins de Jenin. Mornings in Jenin was originally published in the United States in 2006 as The Scar of David. originally published as The Scar of David, 2006, United States and Les Matins de Jenin, France) is a novel by author Susan Abulhawa. ![]()
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