The Blue Between Sky and Water -

Susan Abulhawa

Bloomsbury USA

2016

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9781632862228

From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of powerful Palestinian women in Gaza.

Violently pushed from their ancient farming village of Beit Daras, a Palestinian family tries to reconstitute itself in a refugee camp in Gaza. The men here, those who have escaped prison or the battlefields, worry over making ends meet, tend their tattered pride, join the resistance. The women are left to be breadwinners and protectors, too. Nazmiyeh is the matriarch, the center of a household of sisters, daughters, granddaughters, whose lives threaten to spin out of control with every personal crisis, military attack, or political landmine. Her brother’s granddaughter Nur is stuck in America; her own daughter’s son, traumatized in an Israeli assault, slips into another kind of exile; her daughter has cancer and no access to medicine. Their neighbor, the Beekeeper’s wife, will extract the marijuana resin to shrink her tumor, but it is also Nazmiyeh’s large heart and zest for life that heals, that will even call Nur back from the broken promise of America and set her on a new path. All Nazmiyeh’s loved ones will return to her, and ultimately journey further, to that place between the sky and water where all is as it once was, and where all will meet again.

Born of a troubling history that continues to rage forth and claim its dead, The Blue Between Sky and Water is a novel of survival and of the vivid, powerful women who manage to enlarge and enliven the everyday. It is a novel for our time—and one that is also timeless.

Resenhas (60)

5 (Perfeito)

Não esperava muito, mas acabei amando

Por mais que eu não acredite em coincidências, achei interessante o fato de eu começar a ler esse livro ao acaso e na mesma semana o Talibã voltar ao controle do Afeganistão. Ok, o livro se passa na Palestina, onde o problema é com Israel, mas deu para entender um pouco mais a cultura muçulmana e abrir ainda mais a minha mente com curiosidade e pesquisa sobre o assunto e eu amo isso.
Eu amo livros que me acrescentem cultura, conhecimentos de assuntos que não conheço e história de povos e esse me acrescentou muito!
Além disso ele tem um romance lindo de superação de uma família que em meio a caos e destruição faz de tudo para se manter viva e unida e para ter dignidade e momentos felizes.
Eu ri, chorei, senti raiva, repulsa... É maravilhoso!!!! Indico demais, mas vá preparado para cenas fortes e bem pesadas!