Poet Hala Alyan's ambitious debut novel, Salt Houses follows the scattered generations of one Palestinian family for whom 'nostalgia is an affliction,' moving from the Six-Day War and a future glimpsed in a daughter's lipsticked coffee cup, to 9/11 and its aftermath.” —Vogue “Alyan is doing important work through this novel /5(). · Hala Alyan is the author of three poetry collections. Salt Houses is her first novel. Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. At the very start of Hala Alyan's novel Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Salt Houses. Alyan's debut novel explores a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home. Buy the Book. The Arsonist's City. A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home.
Salt Houses, Hala Alyan, author, Leila Buck, narrator "Salt Houses" by [email protected] (see profile) 06/20/ This story of a family that was forced to leave their home first Jaffa, then in Jordan and finally in Kuwait all because of the various wars that were taking place in the Middle East. Very enlightening. Salt Houses. Hala Alyan. Random House, - Fiction - pages. 10 Reviews. 'A piercingly elegant novel with the power to both break and mend your heart.'. Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane. 'Epic in scope and uniquely relevant in its concern for displacement. Particularly well-suited for our times, then.'. Hala Alyan's Salt Houses flies like a searchlight between history and fiction, unearthing the life of a single displaced Palestinian family among the rubble and illuminating it so deeply, so brilliantly, we cannot help but connect the story's richly imagined past to our very real present. Cristina García, author of King of Cuba and others.
Salt Houses is a work of historical fiction written by Palestinian-American author Hala Alyan and published in Salt Houses follows the story of four generations of the fictional Palestinian middle-class family, the Yacoubs. Beginning in and concluding in , Alyan details the family's journey through the Six Day War (), the First Intifada (), the Gulf War (), the Second Intifada (), 9/11 (), and the Lebanon War. The meaning of the title is noted three fourth of the way through the book when the family patriarch, Atef, reminisces, “the houses glitter whitely like structures made of salt before a tidal wave sweeps them away.”. His family – 4 generations – Read More Iris F. Meaningful and Well Written. Salt Houses is a novel by the Palestinian-American author Hala Alyan. Spanning a year period from the middle of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st century, the novel tells the multigenerational story of the Yacoub family, whose lives in the Middle East are disrupted several times by the need to evacuate or flee various wars and conflicts.
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