A Treaty of Love
By (Author) Samir El-Youssef
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
1st December 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Hardback
160
Width 140mm, Height 205mm, Spine 23mm
326g
In London a couple meet at a party. She is Israeli and he Palestinian. Both are here to escape the politics of their countries and both want to be alone.
Despite that, their relationship develops and inevitably they have to confront the politics that, in principle, separates them.Can their relationship surviveA clever, well-paced novel.Samir El-Youssef is Palestinian and was born in Rashidia, a refugee camp in Lebanon. His essays and reviews have appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Washington Post, Jewish Quarterly as well as the Arabic Al-Hayat. He has been living in North London since 1990. In 2005 he won the Tucholsky Award for promoting the cause of peace and freedom of speech in the Middle East. THE ILLUSION OF RETURN is his first novel in English.