Salt Houses(1st Edition) by HalaAlyan 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 HalaAlyan 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 (Hardback) by HalaAlyan 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 a Novel by Alyan, Hala Hardcover, Published 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-358-12655-3, ISBN: 0-358-12655-X
"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 ..."