A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith

Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile: love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong.

Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century, and the looming shadow of the Second World War. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction.

**WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020**

'An exquisite novel' New York Times Book Review
'Hammad is a writer of startling talent - and The Parisian has the rhythm of life' Observer
'Akin to plunging into a great 19th-century classic' Financial Times
'Undeniably beautiful' The Times

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• Literature & FictionHistorical FictionMiddle Eastern
• RomanceHistorical Romance20th Century

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