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Original Title:	The Scar of David
ISBN:	1608190463 (ISBN13: 9781608190461)
Edition Language:	English URL http://morningsinjenin.com/
Characters:	Yousef, Amal, David/Ismael
Setting:	Palestinian Territory, Occupied Pennsylvania(United States) Beirut(Lebanon) …more Jenin(Palestinian Territory, Occupied) Jerusalem(Israel) Ein Hod(Israel) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	Muhammad Hasan Askari Award for Urdu Translation (2010)

Mornings in Jenin

Susan Abulhawa

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 4.38 | 19284 Users | 3175 Reviews

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Title	:	Mornings in Jenin
Author	:	Susan Abulhawa
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	February 15th 2010 by Bloomsbury USA (first published March 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Novels

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A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.

Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom, peace, and home. This is the Palestinian story, told as never before, through four generations of a single family.

The very precariousness of existence in the camps quickens life itself. Amal, the patriarch's bright granddaughter, feels this with certainty when she discovers the joys of young friendship and first love and especially when she loses her adored father, who read to her daily as a young girl in the quiet of the early dawn. Through Amal we get the stories of her twin brothers, one who is kidnapped by an Israeli soldier and raised Jewish; the other who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause. Amal’s own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades; it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage, and parenthood, and finally of the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has.

The deep and moving humanity of Mornings in Jenin forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetimes.

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" Where should the birds fly After the last sky.....I can explain this, but it would break the glass cover on your heart,And there's no fixing that" "Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender

I don't know how to write a review for a book that induced and provoked a jar of emotions more than thoughts !!I feel like I lived The 50+ years time span of this novel in a couple of days ,,with its sadnesses and the few moments of happiness and joy that found their way stealthily to its pages .The author really knows how to tell a story and professionally makes you involved personally with the scenes ,characters and emotions.The amount of unjust ,oppression and turmoil in this novel is too



A Palestinian perspective on the conflict in the Middle East? Yes, this book delivers that. A good novel? No, not that.This book starts with the idyllic lives of Palestinian villagers in the early 1940s. It moves on to describe their displacement into a refugee camp, where the main character, Amal, is born. From there it (mostly) follows her life up until the early 2000s. Amal grows up in the camp, but a scholarship is her ticket out and from there her life takes some interesting turns until she

i wrote it. so, my rating isn't all that relevant to readers. but for what it's worth, it came from a place of love, and I put pieces of my heart in this narrative.

I wanted to read Mornings in Jenin because I was looking for an artful corrective to the American media slant of Israeli/good, Palestinian/terrorist. Unfortunately, Mornings in Jenin is neither artful nor corrective; what it is is propaganda from the pro-Palestinian side in which, and for the most part Palestinian = good, Israeli = terrorist. That's half the problem, the other half is that it's not a very well written book, suffering from unmotivated shifts in point of view, considerable telling

It is heart-wrenching, emotional and torturous. How can my soul possibly be the same after reading this. A near perfect novel, flawed only be very subtle faults, it comes close to a perfect painting of Palestine. I assure you that you will lose yourself; it is a book that will confuse you. Amidst all the pain, gut-wrenching emotions and utter shock you will forget that this is a story of fiction and will almost believe it is most definitely an autobiography. The events are all too real; the