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Enter Ghost: A Novel
Isabella HammadA bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask & Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine & takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet
After years away from her family's homeland, & 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 since the second intifada & the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed & made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her burgeoning acting career & now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep & new.
Once at Haneen's, Sonia meets the charismatic & candid Mariam, a local director, & finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Sonia is soon rehearsing Gertude’s lines in Classical Arabic & spending more time in Ramallah than Haifa, along with a dedicated group of men from all over historic Palestine who, in spite of competing egos & priorities, each want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many 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.
A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, & the connection to be found in family & shared resistance. Timely, thoughtful, & passionate, Isabella Hammad’s highly anticipated 2nd novel is an exquisite feat, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation.
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Isabella Hammad’s first novel The Parisian (2019) won a Palestine Book Award & the Sue Kaufman Prize.
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