Miral

Soon to be a major motion picture from the award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto.

WRITTEN BY the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine. The story begins with Hind, a woman who sacrifices everything to establish a school for refugee Palestinian girls in East Jerusalem. Years later Miral arrives at the school after her mother commits suicide. Hind sees that Miral has the potential to change the world peacefully-but Miral is appalled by the injustice that surrounds her, and flirts with the notion of armed resistance. Hind desperately works to persuade her to stay the course of education, hard work, and non-violent resolution-but is she too late?

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Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 11/03/2010
ISBN: 9780143116196
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.14w x 0.56d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/14/2010
Library Journal 09/01/2010 pg. 101
People Weekly 12/20/2010 pg. 55