Two books for the price of one!
Bloomsbury Special

Buy Susan Abulhawa's 'Mornings in Jenin', $33, and receive a free copy of Hanan al-Shaykh's 'The Locust and the Bird'.
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Mornings in Jenin

Palestine, 1948. The Abulheja family are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli solder; the other who in sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause will become his enemy. Amal\'s own dramatic story threads its way through six decades of Israeli-Palestinian tension: it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Richly told and full of humanity, this is an extraordinary debut. $33

Locust and the Bird

New York 2001: Hanan al-Shaykh travels through the streets of Manhattan to her daughter\'s wedding. Remembering her own secret ceremony some thirty years ago, her thoughts turn to her mother, Kamila, who was sacrificed into marriage and who, in recent years, has pleaded with Hanan to tell her story.

Lebanon, 1934: Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. She longs to go to school, but instead she is to lead a life of domestic servitude - an worse, she has been secretly betrothed to her brother-in-law, a man eighteen years her senior. What follows is an incredible story of love, deep pain, abandonment and of immense spirit.