Recognizing the Stranger

Auteur

Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. The Parisian won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award. She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Enter Ghost won the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, among other prizes. The winner of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and an O. Henry Prize, she has been awarded literary fellowships from the Cullman Center, the Lannan Foundation, and the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

Texte du rabat

"Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing." -- Rashid Khalidi

From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes a profound essay and new afterword on narrative turning points and the Palestinian struggle for freedom

Isabella Hammad, author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost, delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before October 7th, 2023. The text of Hammad's seminal speech and her afterword written in the early weeks of 2024 together make up a passionate appraisal of the war on Palestine during what feels like a turning point in the narrative of human history. Moving and erudite, Hammad writes from within the moment, giving voice to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Recognizing the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.