{"product_id":"against-the-loveless-world","title":"Against The Loveless World","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thrilling, defiant novel FATIMA BHUTTOA masterpiece MARC LAMONT HILLWonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places MICHAEL PALINA fearless work of imagination AHDAF SOUEIFWinner of the Palestine Book AwardNahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things, and had many names. She was a girl who learned, early and painfully, that when you are a second class citizen love is a kind of desperation; she learned, above all else, to survive. She was a girl who went to Palestine in the wrong shoes, and without looking for it found what she had always lacked in the basement of a battered beauty parlour: purpose, politics, friends. She found a dark-eyed man called Bilal, who taught her to resist; who tried to save her when it was already too late. Nahr sits in the Cube, and tells her story to Bilal. Bilal, who isnt there; Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crosswordbooks.uae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137248202827,"sku":"BK0003891","price":67.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0646\/4877\/3707\/files\/71wPLif3crL._SL1500.jpg?v=1770790425","url":"https:\/\/crosswordbooks.ae\/products\/against-the-loveless-world","provider":"Crossword Dubai","version":"1.0","type":"link"}