- Palestinian Arabs, Fiction, Arab-Israeli conflict, Family life
Thirteen-year-old Hayaat of Bethlehem faces check points, curfews, and the travel permit system designed to keep people on the West Bank when she attempts to go to her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem with her best friend.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Randa Abdel-Fattah
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, Scholastic Press, Marion Lloyd
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780545172929
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