The House in Talbiya
On sale
11th March 2027
Price: £22
Genre
‘Close to perfect’ JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
‘I’d follow this writer anywhere’ REBECCA MAKKAI, bestselling author of The Great Believers
ONE HOUSE. TWO FAMILIES. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY.
1927, Jerusalem. In the elegant neighbourhood of Talbiya stands a majestic villa of white limestone, surrounded by flowers and fruit trees.
The house was built by the Khourys, a Palestinian family who dream it will be their home for decades to come. When the Nakba drives them out of Jerusalem, they become refugees in the West Bank and memories of the lost home haunt the family for generations.
For the Glasers, Israelis who move into the same house years later, it is a sanctuary from the horrors of the past, a way of forgetting the family’s traumatic memories of the Holocaust, passed down like an inheritance.
The House in Talbiya follows the Khourys and the Glasers over one hundred years, through love and heartbreak, disasters and triumphs, war and loss. At once epic and intimate, their fates and fortunes reveal a moving portrait of Israel and Palestine.
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Praise for Wingate Prize-shortlisted The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land:
‘Every one of these stories moved me and taught me something I did not know before’ SIGRID NUNEZ
‘As outrageously funny as they are outrageously tender’ KIRAN DESAI
‘Rarely do we encounter a writer so young but also this wise’ HA JIN
‘Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov’ ANTHONY MARRA
‘A deeply humane writer. Every story is a vivid world unto itself, intensely felt, and often revelatory’ NICOLE KRAUSS
‘I’d follow this writer anywhere’ REBECCA MAKKAI, bestselling author of The Great Believers
ONE HOUSE. TWO FAMILIES. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY.
1927, Jerusalem. In the elegant neighbourhood of Talbiya stands a majestic villa of white limestone, surrounded by flowers and fruit trees.
The house was built by the Khourys, a Palestinian family who dream it will be their home for decades to come. When the Nakba drives them out of Jerusalem, they become refugees in the West Bank and memories of the lost home haunt the family for generations.
For the Glasers, Israelis who move into the same house years later, it is a sanctuary from the horrors of the past, a way of forgetting the family’s traumatic memories of the Holocaust, passed down like an inheritance.
The House in Talbiya follows the Khourys and the Glasers over one hundred years, through love and heartbreak, disasters and triumphs, war and loss. At once epic and intimate, their fates and fortunes reveal a moving portrait of Israel and Palestine.
***
Praise for Wingate Prize-shortlisted The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land:
‘Every one of these stories moved me and taught me something I did not know before’ SIGRID NUNEZ
‘As outrageously funny as they are outrageously tender’ KIRAN DESAI
‘Rarely do we encounter a writer so young but also this wise’ HA JIN
‘Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov’ ANTHONY MARRA
‘A deeply humane writer. Every story is a vivid world unto itself, intensely felt, and often revelatory’ NICOLE KRAUSS