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Portrait of a Palestinian family in exile

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Published: 23 May 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Palestinian-American debut novel drives home the trauma of exile – David B. Green – Haaretz 17.05.17
The reader who approaches ‘Salt Houses’, Hala Alyan’s multi-generational portrait of a Palestinian family in exile, with expectations of grand pronouncements about right and wrong, or victim and perpetrator, will be disappointed.

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