The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant

Sahar Khalifeh · 2002 CE · Novel · Arabic · Contemporary

A Muslim man in Jerusalem searches the city across three decades for the Christian woman he abandoned. His pursuit runs through occupation, displacement and the changing lines between the city's communities. A Palestinian feminist novelist's work, it weighs private guilt against a collective history and won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal.

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