Miral: A Novel

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4.5
4 reviews
Ebook
320
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Soon to be a major motion picture from the award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto.

WRITTEN BY the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine. The story begins with Hind, a woman who sacrifices everything to establish a school for refugee Palestinian girls in East Jerusalem. Years later Miral arrives at the school after her mother commits suicide. Hind sees that Miral has the potential to change the world peacefully-but Miral is appalled by the injustice that surrounds her, and flirts with the notion of armed resistance. Hind desperately works to persuade her to stay the course of education, hard work, and non-violent resolution-but is she too late?

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4.5
4 reviews
A Google user
March 11, 2011
I greatly appreciated and enjoyed this. Kudos to Rula Jebreal for such a great historical fiction. Finished it in three days flat. Excellent book of triumph and failure, love and sacrifice, life and death. Shows just how hard it is for Middle Eastern women and girls in any decade., and make you emotions inside you move like never before. Yes, some parts are hard to read, but it al pays off when you turn that last page and read that last word. Could never have lived without it. I have had the privilege of being born and bred in the states, because my great-grandparents were fortunate enough to have come through Ellis Island, two generations before I was even thought of. Only real, devoted, and true readers could appreciate this kind of novel. If you enjoyed this I recommend reading Khaled Hosseinii books.
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A Google user
April 17, 2011
Captures so many issues of what has taken place in Palestine, and wraps it all up in a wonderful human narrative and story.
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About the author

Rula Jebreal is an award-winning journalist who specializes in foreign affairs and immigration rights issues. She was born in Haifa, studied and worked in Italy in Italy as an anchor woman for many year, and now makes her home in New York.

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