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In this powerful novel, acclaimed Palestinian author Sahar Khalifeh examines the stark realities in the lives of Palestinian women. Through her protagonist, Zeynab, born to an American mother & a Palestinian father, Khalifeh illuminates the disorienting experience of living between two worlds, & the search for identity that mirrors the Palestinians' own quest for nationhood. Set against the emotionally charged background of the early 1990s when the Gulf War & the Oslo Accords fundamentally shifted the political landscape The Inheritance takes as its subject the fate of young Palestinian women who supported their families for decades working elsewhere in the Middle East. In vivid prose, Khalifeh traces the disruption caused by the Gulf War on the life of these women, as Zeynab returns to her homeland & tries to adapt to her new life on the West Bank after years spent in Kuwait. In her previous novels, Sahar Khalifeh has established herself as the premier female novelist of the Palestinian diaspora; with The Inheritance, she breaks new ground in giving voice to these Palestinian women & their return from economic exile. With its critical portrayal of the Palestinian Authority, its mi

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Author

Sahar Khalifeh, Aida Bamia (translation)

Publisher

The American University in Cairo Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9789774249396

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction

Rating

3.63 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14