Amy Abdelnoor discusses debut novel ‘Ever Land’

JEDDAH: Amy Abdelnoor’s debut novel “Ever Land” arrives after a seven-year “gestation period,” but its emotional foundation stretches back nearly three decades. Set in the early 2000s, it follows two youngsters: Dinah, a British-Jewish teenager who moves with her family into a brand-new house that was built on the ruins of a Palestinian village, and Safa, a Palestinian girl who was killed decades ago in the Six Day War, stuck in the afterlife from where she searches for her little sister Nur, their family’s only survivor.

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