Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian; Enter Ghost is her second book.She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Palestine Book Award and a Betty Trask Award. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Lannan Foundation.
The story of Sonia, a British Palestinian actor, who gets involved in a production of Hamlet on the West Bank. It’s a gorgeously written, very nuanced, deeply layered book, and I absolutely loved it.
Monica Ali