A powerful socio-political novel, Nisanit, depicts love, compassion, sacrifice, suffering and lost innocence in an atmosphere of conflict, hatred and oppression. Nisanit's three entwined narrative lines show the Arab-Israeli conflicts through the eyes of Shadeed, the Palestinian guerrilla fighter; David, his Israeli interrogator; and Iman, the young Arab woman in love with Shadeed. The three main characters are seen as vicitms of history and geography who are grappling with the human cost of the Arab-Israeli and Arab-Arab conflicts.
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Mired in political rhetoric, this alarming first novel by a Jordanian native tracks a Palestinian terrorist, his girlfriend and his Israeli interrogator. The subject matter--a terrorist's thought processes, his lethal acts (including the murder of nine Israeli settlers), capture, torture and attendant plunge into madness--is potentially gripping, but Faqir repeatedly proffers graceless, simplistic agitprop instead of careful plotting or characterizations. David, the Israeli interrogator, is a tormented Holocaust survivor, a caricature here whose pleasure is watching a "prisoner's skin change from red-crimson-purple to indigo. When the left side of the body became a mixture of black and purple he would switch to the right. The ultimate was an even colour all over." To Faqir, the Palestinians are like nisanit blossoms: able to survive the heat, the desert flower takes so deep a hold in the ground that it can't be rooted out. Shadeed the terrorist ruminates on peace: "It would never spread over their country until these aggressors stopped polluting their air." His relationship with Eman develops at a fairy-tale-fast gallop; her father, a Palestinian, was hanged in a failed coup to overthrow the Democratic State of Ishmael--apparently Jordan--and Eman believes that she is doomed to lose everyone she loves.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A major writer . . . an extraordinary book -- Malcolm Bradbury on the hardback cover
Faqir is never so crass as to attempt to empathise with either terrorism or torture to the point of justifying either -- 'The ridicule and laughter of women', the Independent Newspaper, 3 December, 1987 by Margaret Forster
Faqir's talent is evident in her ability to make the reader cringe for both tortured and torturer -- 'The ridicule and laughter of women', the Independent Newspaper, 3 December, 1987 by Margaret Forster
In Nisanit she [Fadia Faqir} succeeds in showing that Israelis also have a heart -- World Literature Today, Spring 1991
Faqir is never so crass as to attempt to empathise with either terrorism or torture to the point of justifying either -- 'The ridicule and laughter of women', the Independent Newspaper, 3 December, 1987 by Margaret Forster
Faqir's talent is evident in her ability to make the reader cringe for both tortured and torturer -- 'The ridicule and laughter of women', the Independent Newspaper, 3 December, 1987 by Margaret Forster
In Nisanit she [Fadia Faqir} succeeds in showing that Israelis also have a heart -- World Literature Today, Spring 1991
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