Loading ...A Palestinian Novel Par Excellence: The Blue between Sky and Water
By Vacy Vlazna
If poetry be the food of love, read on.*
The Blue between Sky and Water, places Susan Abulhawa among the Illustrissimiof Palestinian literature. It is a novel one must read, at minimum twice. Once to follow the ‘what’s next’ of the evolving plot with its larger than fiction characters.
And the second time?
To slowly savor the luminescent beauty of the writing: human life, generically Palestinian, from the minute to the magnificent, is caught in the net of Abulhawa’s lyrical genius and comes up from the depths of her creativity shimmering.
The novel, set in Gaza, spans four generations of the Baraka family’s experience of the great Palestinian tragedy of the Naqba, past and present,
Source: www.palestinechronicle.com