Enter Ghost

Product available on: 01/02/2024
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Enter Ghost
A necessary work.
A call to action, Hammad is a writer who urges fiction to be utilised as a way to shine a light on our limitations of perception. The Israel-Palestine co... READ MORE
Ella-Mae at Lewes
Enter Ghost
Astute and emotionally engaging
Hammad really beautifully conveyed the contrasts and similarities between art/theatre/Hamlet on one side and the experience of living in different times an... READ MORE
Selma - Waterstones Islington

Synopsis

After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn't been back since the second intifada and the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed and made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her burgeoning acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.

Once at Haneen's, Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing Gertude's lines in classical Arabic and spending more time in Ramallah than in Haifa with a dedicated group of men who, in spite of competing egos and priorities, each want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many invasive and violent obstacles stand before a troupe of Palestinian actors. Amidst it all, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • ISBN: 9781786149626
  • Dimensions: 190 x 185 mm
  • Languages: English

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Enter Ghost
A duly deserved place on the Women's Prize shortlist
This is a multi-faceted book that not only brilliantly explores art as a form of resistance but also focuses on the casual drama that occurs within a theat... READ MORE
Azrah Jussab
Enter Ghost
Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted
Yet another book that I had not heard of until it hit the longlist of the Women's fiction prize, this list manages to surprise me so much each year. Befor... READ MORE
Fiona Sharp