Star of the Sea, By Elias Khoury

Facilitated by Louise Meller

FICTION, 417 pages

Available in Paperback and Kindle           

 Star of the Sea is the second installment of a brilliant trilogy—an epic tale of love, survival, and ongoing devastation.

Weaving history, memory, and poetry, this unforgettable novel—and the 1st book in a trilogy—provides a sprawling memorial to the Nakba and the strangled lives left in its wake.

Star of the Sea.  Adam Dannoun’s story is one of beginnings. Born in a war-torn Israel, Adam dreams of becoming a writer. He is just an infant when Jewish forces uproot and massacre thousands of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba, including his own father. Adam’s mother, crumbling with loss, takes her son to Haifa and remarries. Adam flees this lifeless home and writes himself a second beginning. With nothing but his father’s will and the image of his mother at the doorway, Adam is born again into the streets of Haifa.

2024 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Award Finalist

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