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The Twenty-Ninth Year
by Hala Alyan
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Mariner Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-328-51194-2, ISBN: 1-328-51194-4

""This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." –LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith—winds itself around the present. Hala’s ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they ..."






Salt Houses(Reprint)
by Hala Alyan
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by Mariner Books
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-1-328-91585-6, ISBN: 1-328-91585-9

"Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award  Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage  “Moving and beautifully written.” — Entertainment Weekly On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her prediction ..."






Four Cities
by Hala Alyan
Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2015 by Black Lawrence Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62557-939-3, ISBN: 1-62557-939-X

"Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Wandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and faith. These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern ..."






Hijra(1st Edition)
(Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor's Selection)
by Hala Alyan
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2016 by Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3540-4, ISBN: 0-8093-3540-9

"In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her aunts, and the female ancestors in Gaza and Syria.   The reader sees war, diaspora, and immigration, and hears the marginalized voices of women of color. The poems use lyrical diction and striking imagery to evoke the weight of ..."






Atrium
Poems
by Hala Alyan, Peter Carlaftes
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2012 by Three Rooms Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9835813-8-3, ISBN: 0-9835813-8-X

"In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after initial reading.The book received the 2013 Arab American Book of the Year Award for Poetry, an astounding achievement for a first collection. In addition, Alyan was recently tapped as a finalist in the Nazim Himet Poetry Competiti ..."






SALT HOUSES(1st Edition)
by Hala Alyan
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Prh
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-951093-2, ISBN: 0-09-951093-6

"'A piercingly elegant novel . . . with the power to both break and mend your heart.' Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane'Epic in scope and uniquely relevant in its concern for displacement. Particularly well-suited for our times, then.' RedWhere do you go when you can't go home?On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs.Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they ..."






Salt Houses(1st Edition)
by Hala Alyan
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-544-91258-8, ISBN: 0-544-91258-6

"“Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan’s powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up to the present tensions between East & West, the modern & ancestral, the hopeless and the hopeful.” —Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan's Inheritance On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads ..."






Salt Houses(Large Print)
(Thorndike Press Historical Fiction)
by Hala Alyan
Hardcover, 547 Pages, Published 2017 by Thorndike Press Large Print
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-4350-2, ISBN: 1-4328-4350-8

"“Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan’s powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up to the present tensions between East & West, the modern & ancestral, the hopeless and the hopeful.” —Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan's Inheritance On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads ..."






Salt Houses
by Hala Alyan
320 Pages, Published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-544-91238-0, ISBN: 0-544-91238-1

"Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand—one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again."






Salt Houses
(Hardback)
by Hala Alyan
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Hutchinson
ISBN-13: 978-1-78633-041-3, ISBN: 1-78633-041-5

"Where do you go when you can’t go home? On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s ..."






The Arsonists' City
by Hala Alyan
464 Pages, Published 2021 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-358-12509-9, ISBN: 0-358-12509-X

""Feels revolutionary in its freshness." —Entertainment Weekly “The Arsonists’ City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan’s hands, one family’s tale becomes the story of a nation—Lebanon and Syria, ..."






Mizna
The Palestine Issue
by George Abraham, Lina Alsharif, Janan Alexandra, Zaina Alsous, Hala Alyan, Zeina Azzam, Bryonn Bain, Jehan Bseiso, Kevin Coval, Najwan Darwish, Natalie Diaz, Summer Farah, Nathalie Handal, Marc Lamont Hill, Fady Joudah, Ed Bok Lee, Hisham Matar, Khaled Mattawa, Sahar Mustafah, Eileen Myles, Naomi Shihab Nye, Donal O'kelly, Bao Phi, Joe Sacco, Najla Said, Mandy Shunnarah, Ahdaf Soueif, Fargo Tbakhi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Naomi Wallace, Yazan Khalili
136 Pages, Published 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-73370-179-2, ISBN: 1-73370-179-6

"Marking seventy years of displacement and occupation in Palestine, Mizna presents The Palestine Issue, centering the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the rich literature it has spurred, guest edited by playwright and poet Ismail ..."






The Twenty-Ninth Year
by Hala Alyan
80 Pages, Published 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-1-328-51272-7, ISBN: 1-328-51272-X

""This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." –LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past—memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of ..."






The Arsonists' City
a Novel
by Alyan, Hala
Hardcover, 467 Pages, Published 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-358-12655-3, ISBN: 0-358-12655-X

""The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan's hands, one family's tale becomes the story of a nation--Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States."






The Moon That Turns You Back
Poems
by Alyan, Hala
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2024 by Ecco
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-331747-5, ISBN: 0-06-331747-8






The Arsonists' City
A Novel
by Alyan, Hala
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2022 by Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-358-69523-3, ISBN: 0-358-69523-6






The Moon That Turns You Back
Poems
by Hala Alyan
118 Pages, Published 2024 by Harpercollins
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-331750-5, ISBN: 0-06-331750-8

"Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest?"






We Call to the Eye and to the Night
Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent
by Alyan, Hala, Beck, Zeina Hashem
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2023 by Persea
ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-567-3, ISBN: 0-89255-567-X






Salt Houses Hala Alyan(1st Edition)
by Hala Alyan
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Hutchinson
ISBN-13: 978-1-78633-042-0, ISBN: 1-78633-042-3

"Where do you go when you can’t go home? On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s ..."






Hoda Afshar
A Curve Is a Broken Line
by Boochani, Behrouz, Dahmani, Taous, Khosravi, Shahram, Parker Philip, Isobel, Sentilles, Sarah, Brooks, Andrew, Lorange, Astrid, Alavi, Elyas, Alyan, Hala, Parker Philip, Isobel
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2023 by Art Gallery New South Wales
ISBN-13: 978-1-74174-167-4, ISBN: 1-74174-167-X






Fourth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival - A Chapbook of Talks and Poetry
by Carlos Trujillo, Greg Dawes, Hala Alyan, Peter Blair, Kevin Boyle, Amy Leigh Brown, Tim Vandyke, Hedy Habra, Jeffrey Kahrs, Anna Lena Phillips, Iris Tillman, Elizabeth Gargano, Emily Romeyn, Mehmet Cevdet Ozturk, Pelin Bali, Buket Aydemir, Birgul Tuzlali, Semih Poroy, Daniel Moore
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-13: 978-1-4751-5532-7, ISBN: 1-4751-5532-8

"The chapbook includes two articles on Pablo Neruda by Professors Carlos Trujillo of Villanova University and Greg Dawes of NC State University as well as poems by the finalists of the Fourth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry competition."






Häuser aus Sand
Roman
by Hala Alyan
400 Pages, Published 2018 by Dumont Buchverlag
ISBN-13: 978-3-8321-8993-8, ISBN: 3-8321-8993-9

"Vor Jahren schon musste Salma ihre geliebte Heimat Jaffa verlassen."






Häuser aus Sand, Roman, Aus dem Englischen von Michaela Grabinger,(1st Edition)
by Hala Alyan, Michaela Grabinger
Hardcover, 396 Pages, Published 2018 by Dumont Buchverlag Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13: 978-3-8321-9855-8, ISBN: 3-8321-9855-5

"Gebundenes BuchVor Jahren schon musste Salma ihre geliebte Heimat Jaffa verlassen. In Nablus hat sie mit ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern einen neuen Platz gefunden. Doch das Haus bleibt ihr stets fremd. Allein den Garten kann sie zu ihrem eigenen Reich machen, und unter ihren Händen wird er zu einem farbenfrohen Paradies. Ihre Tochter Alia dagegen fühlt sich mit dem Haus und Nablus so verbunden, wie Salma es mit Jaffa war. Doch der Kaffees ..."






Häuser aus Sand(1st Edition)
Roman. Hala Alyan ; aus dem Englischen von Michaela Grabinger
by Hala Alyan, Michaela Grabinger
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Dumont Buchverlag Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13: 978-3-8321-6511-6, ISBN: 3-8321-6511-8






The Map of Salt and Stars(Reprint)
A Novel
by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Atria Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-6905-2, ISBN: 1-5011-6905-X

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