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Author: Khalifeh, Sahar, Gassick, Trevor Le, Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 1 August 2023 by Saqi Books in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Saqi Bookshelf’ series.

Paperback | 272 pages
196 x 130 x 37 | 242g

A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement. His mission is to blow up buses transporting Palestinian workers into Israel. Shocked to discover that many of his fellow citizens have adjusted to life under military rule, Usama sets out to accomplish his mission …with disastrous consequences. Wild Thorns is the first Arab novel to offer a glimpse of social and personal relations under Israeli occupation. Featuring unsentimental portrayals of everyday life, its uncompromising honesty and rich emotional core plead elegantly for the cause of survival in the face of oppression.