{"product_id":"9781526618818-retail-against-the-loveless-world-winner-of-the-palestine-book-award","title":"Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award","description":"'A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO 'A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL 'Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALIN 'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIF Winner of the Palestine Book Award Nahr 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 isn't there; Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48991497552091,"sku":"9781526618818-RETAIL","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6de33001-749e-4b3d-b375-270a385b6a7d.jpg?v=1784507073","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781526618818-retail-against-the-loveless-world-winner-of-the-palestine-book-award","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}